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

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 ...

JMW Turner was a bit of an eccentric ... To depict the dramatic weather as accurately as possible, the artist allegedly tied himself to the mast of a ship that was heading into troubled water ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during the English romantic period and was most famed for his ...

But his later paintings, such as his 1842 “Burial ... an earlier version of this story misstated when Joseph Mallord William (J.M.W.) Turner’s painting “Burial at Sea” hung at the Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who was better, JMW Turner or John Constable? A daft question, surely, or so I thought. In my recent book on British art, I avoided choosing. Two greats, too different. But when The Times asked me ...

Regarding Tracey Emin’s feminist art now on display in the renovated museum, I noted that “one painting of her is enough” -- less is more. But when it comes to J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851 ...

By Karen Rosenberg Franny Moyle’s ambitious biography depicts J.M.W. Turner’s talent, work ethic and self-involvement in detail but with little style or warmth. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

From Landscape painting to Pop Art, there is a wealth of exhibitions to see in the UK outside of London this summer, ...