Sketch Book for the Artist

J. M. W. TURNER

British landscape, seascape,

and history painter whose

primary interest above all

was light. Turner worked in

oils and watercolors and

sketched copiously on his

travels. There are many stories

of his passionate working

methods, including being

lashed to a ship's mast in

order to study a storm.

Air in Motion

Pencil and watercolor Stains of

subdued watercolor are splashed,

brushed, and pressed into this

absorbent sheet The paper's very

own coior is brought through as

banks of mist and fog. A penciled

outline of a skeletal ship is

scratched into the waves, while

the whole composition leans and

swells around its fateful center.

Ship in a Storm

c. 1826

91 / 2 x 113 / 4 in (241 x 300 mm)

J.M.W. TURNER

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI
Prolific Japanese color
wood-block printmaker,
painter, designer and book
illustrator; influenced by
examples of Western art
obtained through Dutch
trading in Nagasaki. Hokusai
in turn has since significantly
influenced European art.
Landscape and city life were
his principal subjects, and his
best-loved works include
100 views of Mount Fuji
and 12 volumes of Manga.

Wind direction This is a colored

wood-block print. To represent

wind, Hokusai has chosen the

direction from which it blows

(from the right), then lifted

clothing horizontally and flowed

it into the stream of the wind.

Plants also bend and flow from

right to left

Coup de Vent a Asajigahare

1802

81 / 2 x 131 / 2 in (217 x 343 mm)

HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA