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Stormy Landscape with a Rainbow, (1824) is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Description
Stormy Landscape with a Rainbow 1824 is a watercolour on wove paper painting, it depicts a scenery which is characteristic of Turner's beautiful and ethereal landscapes. Revered as the father of watercolour painting, Turner was a master at manipulating the translucent qualities of paper to create a sense of light within his works by leaving areas of the paper blank, and indeed the rainbow appears to be lit from behind.

Historical information
Credited with the creation of the watercolour medium, Turner was an avidly experimented with studies of colour and light, his practice soon began to explore palettes that consisted of reds, yellows, and ultimately the range of colour we now associate with the medium. Turner made breathtakingly fresh water colours for his own pleasure, they are typically very abstract and would have been considered avant-garde in comparison to his contemporaries. Like much of the art of the 18th century, Turner's Stormy Landscape with a Rainbow was influenced by Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime and the beautiful. Evoking the powerful feelings of awe and wonder, the sublime was evidently present in the manifestation of Turner's landscape scenery. The beauty in his watercolours would project the sensation of peacefulness and tranquility in the spectators. Stormy Landscape with a Rainbow served as the perfect study of Turner, the subject matter offered the possibility to explore all the hues of the spectrum and appealed to his interest in science and colour theory.

 "Every object he saw was outlined to his vision in prismatic colour." - Lady Eastlake

Acquisition
Purchased in memory of Alan Flacks, 1999.