Turner as Draughtsman
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Turner as Draughtsman looks at the artist's practice of drawing in various media (pen, pencil and chalk as well as watercolour and oil paint), an aspect of Turner's work which has hitherto received very little attention. Andrew Wilton shows that, while Turner's art has always been celebrated for its atmospheric breadth and freedom of handling, he based his working procedures throughout his career on the discipline of drawing in outline, which was an essential element in the grand strategy by which he achieved his formidable results. An important section of the book is devoted to the vexed question of Turner's drawing of the human figure, and the crucial role played by the figure both in his conception of landscape and in his ambitious attempts to master all the genres of fashionable contemporary art.
Andrew Wilton is a leading Turner scholar. He was the first Curator of the Turner Collection in the Clore Gallery, at what is now Tate Britain, and has been responsible for many books and exhibitions about the artist, and about British painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was Keeper of the British Collection at the Tate 1989-98, and is currently Visiting Research Fellow there, working on the drawings in the Turner Bequest.