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William Turnbull: Figures and Natural Forms

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  • WILLIAM TURNBULL: FIGURES AND NATURAL FORMS In 1973, William Turnbull was given a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London....

    WILLIAM TURNBULL: FIGURES AND NATURAL FORMS

     

    In 1973, William Turnbull was given a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London. The exhibition, which included an in-depth catalogue essay by curator Richard Morphet, required that Turnbull engage in an extensive reappraisal of his past and recent work. This mid-career survey almost inevitably left Turnbull looking for a new place to begin and for much of the 1970s, while he continued to paint, he devoted more time to drawing and made small-scale sculptures in clay.

     

    In 1970, Turnbull had made an extensive group of screenprints to illustrate the 10th century Moorish poem The Garden of Caresses and this project sparked a renewed interest in both figure drawing and printmaking. Turnbull's subsequent works on paper from the 1970s have a formal directness and pleasing sensuality, qualities later present in the new cycle of sculptures which emerged at the end of the decade.

     

     

  • Etchings

    William Turnbull  1922-2012Leaf Etching 2, 1971  signed and dated, edition no.4/30 from an edition of 30  etching  25 x 19 1/8 inches 63.5 x 48.3 cm (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Leaf Etching 3, 1971 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull  1922-2012Leaf Etching 5, 1971  signed and dated, edition no.3/30 from an edition of 30  etching  25 x 19 1/8 inches 63.5 x 48.3 cm (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull  1922-2012Leaf Etching 7, 1971  signed and dated, edition no.4/30 from an edition of 30  etching  25 x 18 7/8 inches 63.5 x 48 cm (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull  1922-2012Leaf Etching 8, 1971  signed and dated, edition no.4/30 from an edition of 30  etching  25 x 19 1/8 inches 63.5 x 48.3 cm (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull  1922-2012Leaf Etching 9, 1971  signed and dated, edition no.3/30 from an edition of 30  etching  25 x 19 1/8 inches 63.5 x 48.3 cm (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Nude Etching 10, 1972 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Nude Etching 12, 1972 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Nude Etching 14, 1971 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Leaf Etching 2, 1971
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  • Watercolours

    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 1), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 2), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 3), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 4), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 5), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 6), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 7), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 8), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 9), 1974 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Small Tree Study 1), 1976 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Small Tree Study 2), 1976 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Tree Study 3), 1976 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Tree Study 5), 1976 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Tree Study 4), 1976 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 10), 1979 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 11), 1979 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    William Turnbull, Untitled (Leaf Study 1), 1974
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  • Drawings

    • William Turnbull, Untitled (Nude 1), 1971
      William Turnbull, Untitled (Nude 1), 1971
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    • William Turnbull, Untitled (Nude 2), 1971
      William Turnbull, Untitled (Nude 2), 1971
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    • William Turnbull, Untitled (Reclining Figure), 1986
      William Turnbull, Untitled (Reclining Figure), 1986
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    • William Turnbull, Untitled (Abstract Figures), 1989
      William Turnbull, Untitled (Abstract Figures), 1989
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  • Paintings

    William Turnbull, Untitled (Willows Green), 1979 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Willows 1), 1979 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Willows 4 Red and Orange), 1979 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    William Turnbull, Untitled (Willows Green), 1979
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  • More about the Artist

    • William Turnbull
      Artists

      William Turnbull

      1922 - 2012
      Offer Waterman & Co specialises in the sale of work by modernist sculptor William Turnbull. Contact us for available sculptures, paintings and prints.
    • William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs, AVAILABLE
      Publications

      William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs

      AVAILABLE
      Includes contributions from Patrick Elliott, Chief Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland and British sculptor, Antony Gormley, as well as previously unseen notes by the artist. Designed by Richard...
    • William Turnbull goes on show at the Wadsworth Atheneum
      News

      William Turnbull goes on show at the Wadsworth Atheneum

      September 12, 2019
      Large Horse, 1990 was installed this week in the grounds of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.
    • Outdoor Dance Performance at the Wadsworth Atheneum
      News

      Outdoor Dance Performance at the Wadsworth Atheneum

      August 2, 2020
      Members of the Judy Dworin Performance Project (JDPP) Ensemble engage with William Turnbull's "Large Horse" (1990).
    • Art Basel Miami, William Turnbull: Expanding Colour 1958-1972
      Exhibitions

      Art Basel Miami

      William Turnbull: Expanding Colour 1958-1972 7 - 10 December 2017
      Between 1958 and 1972, William Turnbull worked across painting and sculpture, producing bold, sequential, Colour Field paintings, alongside industrially manufactured sculptures in steel. Informed by a trip to New York...
    • William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs
      Exhibitions

      William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs

      29 September - 3 November 2017
      Offer Waterman is delighted to announce New Worlds, Words, Signs , a major survey of the work of William Turnbull dating from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The...

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