Commentary by Gillian Forrester

Click on the image of Storm on the Ganges, or Mrs. Hastings near the Rocks of Colgong to hear commentary by Gillian Forrester.

Gillian Forrester is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and works on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual cultures of Britain and the former British Empire. Her publications include Turner’s Drawing Book: The Liber Studiorum (Tate, London, 1996) and Rebecca Salter: Into the Light of Things (Yale University Press, 2011). With Tim Barringer and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Forrester curated Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale Center for British Art and National Gallery of Jamaica, 2007—08) and co-edited the related publication (Yale University Press, 2007), which won the College Art Association’s 2009 Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art. Forrester is working on two exhibitions for the Yale Center for British Art—one on this painting for 2017, and Art and the British Empire (co-curated with Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale), for 2020.