Staff and Volunteer Preview – J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free

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Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, exhibited 1835. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928.

Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, exhibited 1835. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928.

You are invited to the staff and volunteer preview for the upcoming exhibition J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free

Tuesday, October 27
•Preview 1:00pm to 7:00pm pm (Galleries are open for viewing from 1:00pm – 7:00pm)

If you’d like to attend a tour, you have two to choose from:
•Tour with Curator Lloyd DeWitt: 2:15-3:00 pm
•Tour with Interpretive Planner David Wistow: 6:00-6:45 pm

No need to pre-register for these tours – just drop in!

This major exhibition celebrates the radically experimental late works of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), a giant of British art whose final paintings range from the dramatic to the contemplative. Opening on Oct. 31, 2015, J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free features more than 50 paintings and works on paper on loan from Tate Britain.