Word: lorraine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turner's sea pieces were the wonder of such stay-at-home fellow Academicians as Benjamin West and Sir Thomas Lawrence, who began by comparing them with Claude Lorrain and ended by finding them incomparable. His Snowstorm, for which he prepared by having himself lashed to a mast for four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral...
...limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...
...17th Century a gifted French expatriate, Claude Lorrain, discovered a landscape of great melancholy possibilities in the Ruins of Rome. Ever since then, few romantic artists on conventional pilgrimage to Italy have failed to turn out one or more studies in the grandeur of ancient Rome's denuded masonry and shattered marble. How differently from such artists one contemporary U. S. painter sees, feels and works, could be observed last week in the most interesting treatment of Rome's Ruins yet produced in the 20th Century. It was on view at the Julien Levy Gallery in Manhattan...
...This drawing was presented to the Museum by Miss Ellen Bullard of Boston, and is the only one of the group in the country. The rest of the Liber Studiorum are in the National Gallery in London. This group of paintings was probably produced by Turner to rival Claude Lorrain, the famous French artist who drew the Liber Veritatis group...