The story that John Ruskin set Turner's scandalous nude paintings on fire was accepted as truth, but centuries later, the ...

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 ...

As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire. JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire ...

Claude Monet is best known for his stunning depictions of water lilies at his garden in northern France. But throughout the mid-1800s and early 1900s, the artist also frequently painted less ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s ...

“J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality” opened on March 29, as part of the YCBA’s opening after renovation closures. On Saturday, the Yale Center for British Art unveiled a new exhibit dedicated to the ...

J.M.W. Turner, Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel ... The previously uncredited painting was acquired more than three decades years ago at an auction house in Suffolk and has remained in the same private ...

A JMW Turner painting of Chepstow Castle overlooking the River Wye has sold at auction to Chepstow Museum for £93,375. The sale price has beaten by almost double the pre-auction estimate of £ ...

From huge paintings to complex installations, this year's shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize embrace the 250-year-old artist's ambition.