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J.M.W. TURNER

Scope|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites 

Scope: J. M. W. Turner was the greatest of all British landscape painters. His oil sketches and landscape paintings adorn the walls of the Royal Academy.

The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available.

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF N 31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art

REF N 5300.I 45 1984 The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists

Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Butlin, Martin. The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 
1984.

Rodner, William S. J.M.W. Turner: Romantic Painter of the Industrial Revolution
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Turner, J.M.W. J.M.W. Turner: His Art and Life. Secaucus, New Jersey: Poplar Books, 1979.

Wilton, Andrew. Turner in His Time. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1987.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Open Access Journals in Arts & Architecture

Open Access Journals in History of Arts

Open Access Journals in Visual Arts

WEB SITES 

http://www.the-artists.org/

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

 

Updated 08/24/2007