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 ...

IF THE jaw-dropping sun at the center of J.M.W. Turner's seascape "Yacht Approaching the Coast" is the climax of the large and thoughtful exhibition on the great British painter at the Baltimore ...

Remember that time J.M.W. Turner grew a thumbnail long enough to be almost grotesque, to perforate the paper and lift the paint into an effect of rushing iridescence? Or the time he used a pumice ...

British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he traveled throughout Europe. But these works are extremely ...

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 ...

One of Britain’s best-loved artists, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), enjoyed great success during his lifetime. All the wealthy people of the day had to have a Turner. His dramatic landscape paintings and ...

After you’ve met up with the famous “Mr. Turner” on the big screen, you’ll probably want to see the renowned artist’s paintings first-hand. You needn’t go far, thanks to at least four museums in our ...

A large poster on the façade of the Grimaldi Forum advertises the exhibition "Turner, the sublime heritage". The Grimaldi Forum is an exhibition and event hall covering over 70,000 square meters, ...

"Mr. Turner," a movie opening in New York and Los Angeles Dec. 19, is a lovely collision of popular culture and fine art. The movie focuses on the art and life of Joseph Mallord William Turner ...

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 ...

You don’t have to venture far into the de Young Museum exhibit of British artist J.M.W. Turner’s works to see what Victorian rivals and critics found “wrong” about his paintings. In “Regulus,” the ...

Portrait of JMW Turner', circa 1841 (1904) - The Print Collector/Getty Images A leading expert on JMW Turner has called for the Tate and National Gallery to explain why two of the paintings that the ...