Fish Market
Framed: 51 x 63 x 5 3/4 inches (129.54 x 160.02 x 14.61 cm)
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Turner’s Gallery, London, May 7-June 9, 1810, no. 9, as Fish Market.
International Exhibition, 1862: Fine Arts Department, South Kensington, London, May 1-November 1, 1862, no. 333, as The Beach, Hastings.
Exhibition of Works by The Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January 2-March 8, 1882, no. 179, as Sea Coast: Hastings.
The annual exhibition on behalf of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, November-December 1908, no. 20.
Exhibition of English Landscapes in Aid of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, Thomas Agnew, London, November-December 1926, no. 15.
Wiener Secession, Meisterwerke englischer Malerei aus drei Jahrhunderten: XCV Ausstellung, Vienna, 1927, no. 86.
Five Centuries of Marine Painting, The Detroit Institute of Arts, March 5-April 5, 1942, no. 63, as The Fishmarket at Hastings Beach.
An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and R. P. Bonington, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 21-April 28, 1946, no. 4, as Fish market at Hastings Beach.
Three Centuries of British Painting, Milwaukee Art Institute, October 18-December 1, 1946.
An Exhibition of Paintings by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) to Commemorate the Centennial of His Death, Art Gallery of Toronto, October 12-November 18, 1951; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, December 1952, no. 17.
Turner in America, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, November 12-December 25, 1955; Dayton Art Institute, January 9-30, 1956; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956, no. 12.
British Painting exhibition, Birmingham Museum of Art, January 25-February 22, 1957.
English Landscape Painters: an exhibition to show the development of landscape painting from Richard Wilson to the present day, Phoenix Art Museum, December 1, 1961-January 31, 1962, no. 12.
The Seashore in Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 22-December 5, 1965, no. 1.
J. M. W. Turner, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., October 1, 2007-Jaunaury 6, 2008; Dallas Museum of Art, February 10-May 18, 2008; The metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 23-Septebmer 21, 2008, no. 44, as Fishmarket [sic] on the Sands—possibly at Hastings.
Turner and the Sea, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, November 21, 2013-April 21, 2014; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, May 31-September 1, 2014, no. 80, as Hastings—Fishmarket [sic] on the Sands.
Illuminated by sunbeams, fishermen in this idealized scene spread their catch for sale on a beach in Hastings, England. In reality, Hastings was rapidly expanding as both a fashionable seaside resort and fishing town. Its growth created tension between developers and fishermen—friction that J. M. W. Turner masked here.
Among the most successful and controversial British artists of the 1800s, Turner expanded the boundaries of marine painting by experimenting with color and light. Turner was also influenced by maritime scenes by Dutch artists of the 1600s as seen in the low horizon of Fish Market.
Purchased from the artist by John “Mad Jack” Fuller, MP (1757-1834), Brightling, Sussex, July 26, 1810;
[Probably by descent to his nephew, Sir Peregrine Palmer Fuller-Palmer-Acland, 2nd Baronet (1789–1871), Fairfield, Somerset, by 1834;]
[Probably by descent to his daughter and son-in-law,] Dame Isabel Harriet Fuller-Palmer-Acland (1832-1903) and Captain Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Fuller-Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet (1819-1892), Somerset, by 1862;
[Probably by descent to their son,] Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St. Audries (1853-1917), Somerset, by 1903-April 4, 1908;
Purchased at his sale, Catalogue of the Very Choice Series of Works by J. M. W. Turner, R.A.; And, Important Modern Pictures and Drawings, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, April 4, 1908, lot 98, by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, 1908-December 1926;
Pandeli Ralli, JP DL (1845-1928), Brighton, Sussex, by 1928;
With Arthur Joseph Sulley (1853-1930), London, by 1930 [1];
By descent to Sulley’s heirs, London, 1930;
With Scott and Fowles, New York, by January 27, 1931;
Purchased from Scott and Fowles, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.
NOTES:
[1] See letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art adviser, NAMA, to Maxwell Blake, April 6, 1931, NAMA curatorial files.
Turner's Gallery, exh. cat., (London, 1810), no. 9, as Fish Market.
Possibly John Burnet, Peter Cunningham, and Henry Murray, Turner and His Works: Illustrated with Examples from His Pictures, and Critical Remarks on His Principles of Painting (London: Virtue, 1859), 20.
International Exhibition, 1862: Official Catalogue; Fine Arts Department, exh. cat. (London: Truscott, Son, and Simmons, 1862), 23, as The Beach, Hastings.
Exhibition of Works by The Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy, 1882), 38, as Sea Coast: Hastings.
Walter Armstrong, Turner (London: Thomas Agnew, 1902), 222.
Catalogue of the Very Choice Series of Works by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.; And, Important Modern Pictures and Drawings (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, April 4, 1908), no. 98.
The annual exhibition on behalf of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, exh. cat. (London: Thomas Agnew and Sons, 1908), no. 20.
Algernon Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, vol. 3 (1913; New York: B. Franklin, 196-?), 1333.
Exhibition of English Landscapes in Aid of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, exh. cat. (London: Thomas Agnew and Artists General Benevolent Institution, 1926), no. 15.
Wiener Secession, Meisterwerke englischer Malerei aus drei Jahrhunderten: XCV Ausstellung, exh. cat. (Vienna:Verein der Museumsfreunde, 1927), no. 86.
The Art Digest (May 1, 1931): 6.
“Nelson Gallery of Art Special Number,” The Art Digest 8, no. 5 (December 1, 1933): 16, 22, as The Fish Market on Hastings Beach.
“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Special Number,” The Art News 32, no. 10 (December 9, 1933): 28, 30, as The Fish Market on Hastings Beach.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 57, 60, (repro.), as The Fish Market on Hastings Beach.
A. J. Finberg, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939), Appendix no. 155, pp. 167, 171.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 67, 71, (repro.), as The Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
Five Centuries of Marine Painting, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942), 17, 20, as The Fishmarket [sic] at Hastings Beach.
An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and R. P. Bonington, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1946), 3, as Fish Market as Hastings Beach.
Three Centuries of British Painting, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Institute, 1946).
Gallery News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 12, no. 10 (Summer 1946): unpaginated, as Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 86, (repro.), as The Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
An Exhibition of Paintings by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) to Commemorate the Centennial of His Death, exh. cat. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1951), 9.
Hilda F. Finberg, “Turner’s Gallery in 1810,” The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 585 (December 1951): 384-85.
Turner in America, exh. cat. (Indianapolis: John Herron Art Museum, 1955).
Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America,” The Connoisseur (April 1956): 141.
British Painting exhibition, exh. cat. (Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1957).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 128, 134, (repro.), as The Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
English Landscape Painters: an exhibition to show the development of landscape painting from Richard Wilson to the present day, exh. cat. (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1961), no. 12.
A. J. Finberg, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A., 2nd ed., ed. Hilda F. Finberg (Oxford: Clarendon, 1967), no. 155, pp. 167, 171, 472.
The Seashore in Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1965), no. 1.
Ellen Goheen, “From Romanticism to Pop,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 542 [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 74], (repro.), as The Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 156, (repro.), as The Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
Turner, 1775-1851, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1974), 68.
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), no. 105, pp. 1: 66-67, 107, 117; 2: (repro.), as Hastings—Fishmarket on the Sands.
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, L’Opera complete di Turner, trans. Marina Anzil Robertini (Milan, 1982), no. 175, p. 1:97, (repro.).
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 280, as The Fish Market at Hastings Beach.
Eric Shanes, Turner in 1066 Country, exh. cat. ([Hastings, East Sussex]: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, 1998).
Paul Spencer-Longhurst, The Sun Rising Through Vapour: Turner’s Early Seascapes (London: Third Millennium, 2003), 38-39, (repro.), as Hastings, Fishermen on the Sands.
Ian Warrell, ed., J. M. W. Turner, exh. cat. (London: Tate, 2007), 79, (repro.), as Fishmarket [sic] on the Sands—possibly at Hastings.
Christine Riding and Richard Johns, Turner and the Sea, exh. cat. (London: Thames and Hudson, 2013), 36, 151, 185, (repro.), as Hastings—Fishmarket [sic] on the Sands.
