William McKeown at IMMA 5 Nov 2008 to 4 Jan 2009
Standing in front of JMW Turner’s The Harbour of Dieppe (1826) at New York’s Frick Collection last January, I was stopped in my tracks by the sky. Its luminous glow stole my eye from the surrounding port scene, making a lie of the painting’s title. Even then, sixteen years before his infamous Snowstorm Steamboat…, Turner [...]
