Before he died in 1851, the celebrated landscape and maritime painter J.M.W. Turner bequeathed much of his art to the British nation, so that the public could appreciate his work in perpetuity. But ...

Paintings from the final 16 years of the artist's life constitute the West Coast's first major exhibition of Turner's work. By Jordan Riefe Turner Show - H 2015 In 1835, J.M.W. Turner turned 60 at a ...

J.M.W. Turner, “Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile” (exhibited 1825, but subsequently dated 1826), oil on canvas, 68 3/8 x 88 3/4 inches (the Frick Collection, New York; photo by Michael ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner created staggeringly luminous paintings – mythological, historical and natural landscapes gleaming with sunlight or misty with fog or locomotive steam. An exhibition of ...

Born in London in 1775 to a lower-middle-class family, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a child prodigy. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts at age 14—interestingly, he intended to study ...

A museum in Wales said it has authenticated three paintings by the English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner that had been considered fakes. The works are being featured in a new display at the National ...

The Peabody Essex Museum sets us sail for summer with its newest show, Turner & the Sea. This is a first-ever look at the British master’s half-century long attraction to ocean. The sea has always had ...

One senses a growing hunger for something recognizably human (and humane) in the surging popularity of representational imagery in art these days. So, as well as being a profound aesthetic experience ...

Few painters have a more capacious and disorienting reputation than Joseph Mallord William Turner. The son of an English barber father and a mentally unstable mother, the precocious Turner (1775-1851) ...

Thanks to an outpouring of public donations, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University has successfully raised the last £60,000 ($90,000) needed to buy J.M.W. Turner’s 1810 painting titled, The High ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half a ...

Restored to its former glory, the home of British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner is once again open to the public, offering art lovers a chance to visit the only extant building designed by the ...