To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in summer 2019, this exhibition surveys visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography through 1969.
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The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Armstrong David M. Asch Maria Astifidis Ronald R. Atkins, Esq.
The son of a London barber and wigmaker, Turner dominated English landscape and marine painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. He studied in the Royal Academy schools from 1789 and first showed a painting at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1796; he was elected an academician in 1802 and continued to exhibit until 1850
Walter Armstrong. Turner. London, 1902, p. 228.
Turner made three trips to Venice, in the late summers of 1819, 1833, and 1840, and the present painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, must have been painted upon his return from his second visit, presumably using his own drawings and watercolors as source materials
Walter Armstrong. Turner. London, 1902, p. 234.
This picture is one of four whaling subjects by Turner; the other three form part of the artist’s bequest at Tate Britain, London. The Met’s painting and another of the same title were shown at the Royal Academy in 1845, receiving a mixed reception
Walter Armstrong. Turner.
The Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage lived for only thirty-six years, but he made a large impact on the French art world of the second half of the nineteenth century (see fig. 1 above, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s medallion made in tribute to him, The Met, Maitland Armstrong. Day Before Yesterday: Reminiscences of a Varied Life. Ed.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Friends of The Costume Institute Joseph Altuzarra Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal Brian Armstrong
