Amy Delabruere

Thesis

Exporting J.M.W. Turner, ca. 1910–1966

Supervisor: Richard Johns and Amy Concannon

Research interests

My research examines the transatlantic circulation, display, and reception of J.M.W. Turner’s work during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing primarily on the United States, the project examines how collectors, dealers, museums, critics, and exhibitions contributed to the transformation of Turner’s posthumous reputation from canonical British landscape painter to proto-modernist precursor.

This is a collaborative doctoral project between the University of York and Tate Britain.

My broader research interests include transatlantic connections and the intersection of visual art and literary culture in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with particular attention to works on paper and archives.