William Turner
A Great Night Out in Blackpool
Oil on Board
7¾ x 8¾ ins (19.68 x 22.23 cms)
Price: £3,750.00
William Turner 1920-2013
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY - WILLIAM TURNER
William Ralph Turner, born in 1920 was the last of the great Northern Industrial painters who belonged to the Northern School of artists influenced by L.S. Lowry and which included Alan Lowndes, Theodore Major, Roger Hampson and Harold Riley. Lowry followed a personal vision, little influenced by the works of other painters. William Turner, however, in the fifties and sixties was a regular visitor to the exhibitions held at the Crane Kalman Gallery, Manchester, where he absorbed the works of the German Expressionists and the French Fauves particularly Beckmann, Vlaminck, Soutine, Chagall, Rouault, Segonzac. He re-interpreted their colours and techniques and applied them in a very personal way to the industrial landscapes of the N.W. of England.
For over fifty years Turner painted the industrial landscapes of the North-West, depicting images of towering cotton mills, pre-clean-air-act skies, smoking chimneys and swarming humanity struggling to survive amidst the industrial chaos. But always there is a lyrical quality in his works, an empathy with his subject matter; there is never any stiffness in his compositions -- his rows of terraced houses, his cotton mills, his public buildings and his viaducts sway and lean in all directions. In a dark industrial valley, his mills are often painted red, yellow, blue or orange, helping to alleviate the grim reality of what he is depicting.
We also see evidence of his amazing imagination and wide-ranging subject matter distorted images of individual figures or of groups, individual images of cinemas, theatres, pub interiors, small terraces of houses, grimy northern streets, a milkman with his horse, rag and bone men, a road sweeper, two children playing, then the spectrum widens to vast panoramas of the Stockport Valley with the viaduct in the background or of the huge mills of Manchester, Stockport and Salford.
Turner depended for his scintillating creations on his amazing memory -- he could re-create on canvas a street scene, an industrial canal or a view from fifty years ago with such accuracy that the older generation can instantly identify the scenes. This remarkable gift has enabled him to record the times through which he has lived, the fast-disappearing industrial landscape of the 19th and early 20th century and to evoke amongst viewers a feeling of nostalgia for things past. It is essential that such a painter should be given the fullest recognition and that his works be preserved for posterity.
Turner's work is more and more widely collected and is in the collections of Sir Peter Ustinov, Sebastian Coe, Eddie Shah, Freddy Pye, Stockport Art Gallery, Saab Motors, Manchester Education Committee and throughout the world.
In 2010 a best-selling book on his life and work written by Stuart Archer and Bill Clark was published by Clark Art Ltd.
William Turner died on June 10th 2013 at the age of 93. He will be remembered as on one of the most important northern artists of the 20th Century.
William Ralph Turner, born in 1920 was the last of the great Northern Industrial painters who belonged to the Northern School of artists influenced by L.S. Lowry and which included Alan Lowndes, Theodore Major, Roger Hampson and Harold Riley. Lowry followed a personal vision, little influenced by the works of other painters. William Turner, however, in the fifties and sixties was a regular visitor to the exhibitions held at the Crane Kalman Gallery, Manchester, where he absorbed the works of the German Expressionists and the French Fauves particularly Beckmann, Vlaminck, Soutine, Chagall, Rouault, Segonzac. He re-interpreted their colours and techniques and applied them in a very personal way to the industrial landscapes of the N.W. of England.
For over fifty years Turner painted the industrial landscapes of the North-West, depicting images of towering cotton mills, pre-clean-air-act skies, smoking chimneys and swarming humanity struggling to survive amidst the industrial chaos. But always there is a lyrical quality in his works, an empathy with his subject matter; there is never any stiffness in his compositions -- his rows of terraced houses, his cotton mills, his public buildings and his viaducts sway and lean in all directions. In a dark industrial valley, his mills are often painted red, yellow, blue or orange, helping to alleviate the grim reality of what he is depicting.
We also see evidence of his amazing imagination and wide-ranging subject matter distorted images of individual figures or of groups, individual images of cinemas, theatres, pub interiors, small terraces of houses, grimy northern streets, a milkman with his horse, rag and bone men, a road sweeper, two children playing, then the spectrum widens to vast panoramas of the Stockport Valley with the viaduct in the background or of the huge mills of Manchester, Stockport and Salford.
Turner depended for his scintillating creations on his amazing memory -- he could re-create on canvas a street scene, an industrial canal or a view from fifty years ago with such accuracy that the older generation can instantly identify the scenes. This remarkable gift has enabled him to record the times through which he has lived, the fast-disappearing industrial landscape of the 19th and early 20th century and to evoke amongst viewers a feeling of nostalgia for things past. It is essential that such a painter should be given the fullest recognition and that his works be preserved for posterity.
Turner's work is more and more widely collected and is in the collections of Sir Peter Ustinov, Sebastian Coe, Eddie Shah, Freddy Pye, Stockport Art Gallery, Saab Motors, Manchester Education Committee and throughout the world.
In 2010 a best-selling book on his life and work written by Stuart Archer and Bill Clark was published by Clark Art Ltd.
William Turner died on June 10th 2013 at the age of 93. He will be remembered as on one of the most important northern artists of the 20th Century.
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William Turner
Albert Square, Manchester
Oil on Board
8 x 10 ins (20.32 x 25.40 cms)
Price: £3,800.00
William Turner
Alderley Woods
Oil on Board
9 x 10 ins (22.86 x 25.40 cms)
Price: £3,950.00
William Turner
Barge and Canal, Castlefields
Oil on Board
29½ x 23½ ins (74.93 x 59.69 cms)
Price: £12,750.00
William Turner
Bells of Peover
Oil on Board
8½ x 6¾ ins (21.59 x 17.15 cms)
Price: £1,975.00
William Turner
Bowdon Clinic
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 ins (50.80 x 76.20 cms)
Sold
William Turner
Church Yard at Haworth
Oil on Board
8 x 9 ins (20.32 x 22.86 cms)
Price: £2,200.00
William Turner
Cottages near Halifax
Oil on Board
8 x 9 ins (20.32 x 22.86 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Daisy Cottage, Knutsford
Oil on canvas
30 x 20 ins (76.20 x 50.80 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Group in Salford
Oil on Board
8 x 9 ins (20.32 x 22.86 cms)
Sold
William Turner
Group of Buildings, Peak Forest
Oil on Board
8 x 9 ins (20.32 x 22.86 cms)
Price: £2,500.00
William Turner
Henley Town Hall
Oil on Board
12 x 16 ins (30.48 x 40.64 cms)
Price: £6,500.00
William Turner
Locked Out
Oil on Board
10¼ x 8¼ ins (26.04 x 20.96 cms)
Price: £2,800.00
William Turner
Man with Drill
Oil on Board
8 x 5 ins (20.32 x 12.70 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Marton Church
Oil on Board
8 x 10 ins (20.32 x 25.40 cms)
Price: £3,500.00
William Turner
Off to the Vets
Oil on Board
8.25 x 10 ins (20.96 x 25.40 cms)
Price: £2,900.00
William Turner
Oxford Road, Manchester
Oil on Board
39 x 32 ins (99.06 x 81.28 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Passage to Higher York St
Oil on Board
21 x 17 ins (53.34 x 43.18 cms)
Sold
William Turner
Pink Bank Works, Gorton, Cheshire
Oil on Board
22 x 32 ins (55.88 x 81.28 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Pott Shrigley near Stockport
Oil on Board
9¼ x 8 ins (23.50 x 20.32 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Self-Portrait
Oil on Board
14 x 11¾ ins (35.56 x 29.85 cms)
Sold
William Turner
Street near Lyon
Watercolour
6 x 4¾ ins (15.24 x 12.07 cms)
Price: £525.00
William Turner
The Hidden Gem
Oil on Board
9 x 8 ins (22.86 x 20.32 cms)
Sold
William Turner
The Joiners Shop, Mottram-St-Andrew
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 ins (50.80 x 60.96 cms)
Sold
William Turner
The Old Man of the Hills
Oil on Board
10 x 8½ ins (25.40 x 21.59 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
The Red Vase
Oil on Board
14 x 12 ins (35.56 x 30.48 cms)
Sold
William Turner
The Smithy, Macclesfield
Oil on Board
11 x 12½ ins (27.94 x 31.75 cms)
Price: £1,900.00
William Turner
The Tall Warehouse
Oil on Board
16 x 20 ins (40.64 x 50.80 cms)
Sold
William Turner
The Woman
Oil on Board
24 x 20 ins (60.96 x 50.80 cms)
P.O.A.
William Turner
Underbank, Stockport
Oil on Board
15½ x 14 ins (39.37 x 35.56 cms)
Sold
William Turner
Villeurbanne
Oil on Board
8 x 9 ins (20.32 x 22.86 cms)
Price: £2,500.00
William Turner
Welsh Coast Line
Oil on Board
12 x 14 ins (30.48 x 35.56 cms)
Price: £2,100.00
William Turner
William Ralph Turner
Book
12 x 9¾ ins (30.48 x 24.77 cms)
Price: £35.00
William Turner
William Ralph Turner (Limited Edition)
Book
12 x 9.75 ins (30.48 x 24.77 cms)
Price: £145.00
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