Constable’s Cloud Studies: Personal Thoughts about His Most Personal Works

Mark Leonard, Chief Conservator at the Dallas Museum of Art, presents the opening lecture for the special exhibition Reflections on Constable’s Cloud Studies: Paintings by Mark Leonard, on view at the Yale Center for British Art from November 30, 2012, to March 10, 2013. The exhibition featured a suite of eleven works by Leonard created in response to John Constable’s cloud studies and small landscapes in the Center’s collection. The paintings were displayed in a one-to-one relationship with Constable’s works, allowing visitors to study Constable in a new light, and to appreciate Leonard’s rigorously structured and highly detailed paintings.