Talk on framing the Turner Squares

"The Framing of the Turner Squares"
Icon: Gilding and Decorative Surfaces Group

Talk given by Tate Frames Conservation Technician Adrian Moore

The Grand Robing Room
Freemasons Hall
60 Great Queen St
London.
Tuesday 3 March 2015.
Doors open 6pm, talk begins 6:30pm

This is an opportunity to hear a talk about the reframing of nine
similarly sized paintings by JMW Turner in the Tate collection,
often referred to as the Turner Squares.  In the 1840s JMW Turner
still experimenting with new ideas embarked on a series of paired
square paintings exhibited with alternative apertures, round, square
and octagonal.  Mostly left unsold, those paintings that entered the
National Collection probably did so unframed.  This talk looks at
the subsequent story of framing and reframing that finally led to
the project to restore visual clarity and sense to the framing of
these important pictures, displaying them together for the first
time looking magnificent in the recent Late Turner Exhibition at
Tate.

Cost: UKP11.25 for Icon members, UKP16.55 for non-members, UKP5.95
for students.

Registration is essential--please book via Eventbrite

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and bring your ticket with you the event.

Wine and cheese will be served and is included in the ticket price

Suzanne Sacorafou
Organiser and committee member of ICON Gilding and Decorative
    Surfaces Group


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