The Frick Collection Tour: JMW Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports Exhibition

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), nineteenth-century Britain’s greatest land- and seascape artist, depicted ports throughout his career, both in monumental oil paintings and in watercolors. An insatiable traveler and an artist with a deep fascination with light, topography, and local traditions, as well as with classical antiquity, Turner brought an innovative approach to the depiction of both modern and ancient ports. In the spring of 2017, The Frick Collection will present Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time, a major exhibition that brings together some thirty-five works from the 1810s through the late 1830s in oil, watercolor, and graphite that capture contemporary cities in England, France, and Germany, as well as imagined scenes set in the ancient world. It will unite for the first time the museum’s two paintings of Dieppe and Cologne with a closely related, yet unfinished, work from Tate Britain that depicts the modern harbor of Brest.

4:00pm tour. $52 per person. Advance reservations required by Friday, February 24, at which time they are considered final sale. Please note that the tour starts promptly at 4:00pm and late arrivals cannot be guaranteed entry. Attendees will meet inside the main entrance of The Frick Collection, located at 1 East 70th Street.