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A coroner has told a county council it must address its lack of road safety measures after a 91-year-old woman drowned after driving into a canal. Doreen Turner died on 1 November after driving ...
Doreen Turner, 91, died on the evening of November 1 last year, after her car went into the canal in Chichester, west Sussex, when there was no evidence of mechanical failure in the vehicle or ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The legacy of English romantic painter JMW Turner will be celebrated throughout this year with exhibitions and a BBC documentary, as 2025 marks 250 years since his birth. The artist, born on April ...
The way JMW Turner depicted a storm at sea shocked his contemporaries, and foreshadowed the evolution of abstract art. He supposedly made the dangerous voyage to better experience the storm.
Chichester canal took three years to build and was opened in 1822. It was immortalised by famous landscaper JMW Turner in 1828, a work which is now in the Tate Collection.