His portrait adorns the United Kingdom's 20 pound bill. The country's most important prize for modern artalso bears the name of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). The artist was firstly ...

BOSTON – J.M.W. Turner painted his tumultuous times in incandescent colors, depicting sea battles and the human cost of war, slavery and industrialism with a visionary style that shaped the course of ...

The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. “The play of light is integral ...

J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...

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 is an institution, admired in his lifetime and today with a wing of Tate Britain dedicated to the vast number of works he bequeathed to the nation. “The Fighting ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN — How much is too much Turner? New England’s determined to put it to the test. The past few years have seen no less than four major showcases of the British firebrand’s catalytic oeuvre ...

Britain’s commander of the churning waves was also a painter of technology and industry. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston shows how he reshaped an art form. By Jason Farago BOSTON — Driving rain, salty ...