TURNER'S PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 9

TURNER'S PICTURES.

Bapid progress is ' being mads /with the splendid new galleries which are! being' built as an extension of the Tato Gallery at Millbank, with the idea 6f providing & suitable homo for the wonderful collection of Turner paintings, sketches, and drawings; loft by the great ' artist to tho nation, for which accommodation cannot be found at tho National Gallery. The galleries, which will bo known as the Ihiveen Wing, are being provided out of funds loft under the will of • tho late Sir Joseph Dnveen, tho famous art ■ dealer, who prior to his death purchased the celebrated Eudolphe Knnn collection for a million pounds sterling.; The large and moro important canvases of Turner will be hung intwo lofty and spacious .galleries; for tho smaller canvases and sketches "low; and intimate /galleries," to quote the words of the are being erected. '/ Tho new wing is /.fronted with Portland stone. The general-lines of the old" building have been followed, but opjjortunity has hcen taken; of the height in tho;;'centre of the now wing'to modify certain of the features. The; building ; will be finished- :'n the early spring, it is ; stated, but will riot bo opened for some time after that, as the authorities i wifh it to he "bono dry" before bringing into I'tha galletlM' tipjjisoious Turneri. /