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A fundraiser launched to buy a recently discovered JMW Turner painting, which remained unidentified for 150 years, has reached £60,000. The Rising Squall features a former hot spring and spa in ...
The link between JMW Turner and the landscapes that inspired him is to be the focus of an exhibition being held in England to ...
The link between JMW Turner and the landscapes that inspired him is to be the focus of an exhibition being held to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. Petworth House in West Sussex, where the ...
As part of the 250th anniversary celebration of JMW Turner, this small display at the great artist’s summer house shows his studies of animals and birds. Head of a Heron with a Fish, 1815, JMW ...
Or so the organizers of “J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality” at the Yale Center for British Art (through July 27) remind us. The show, containing more than 75 works—oil paintings, ...
Tickets for the Walker Art Gallery’s major exhibition exploring the work of JMW Turner and his enduring impact on later generations are on sale from today – exactly 250 years since the artist ...
The mature Turner was never a painter of line but always one of mass, tone and light. For him the four elements were interchangeable; he treated land as if it were air and air as if it were water.
These are J. M. W Turner's 11 best paintings, ... For me, it summarises everything Turner was brilliant at. Cold moonlight is a difficult thing to get right for an artist and he manages to do that — ...
JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire became a national celebrity when it was first unveiled in 1839, and its fame has endured to the present day. It was once voted Britain's favourite painting and ...
From Remainers to Reform UK voters, from Mike Leigh to the Bank of England's note-makers, everyone seems to agree that Joseph Mallord William Turner "was our greatest artist", said Jonathan Jones ...
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. A year-long festival of exhibitions and events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of artist JMW Turner has been announced.
JMW Turner died in 1851 at the age of 76. "His influence continues to resonate, whether through the Turner Prize, his place on the £20 note or the countless artists inspired by his work," a Tate ...