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J.M.W. Turner. Where: The Metropolitan Museum of ... metmuseum.org "A Typhoon bursting in a simoon over the Whirlpool of the Maelstrom, Norway, with a Ship on fire, an Eclipse, and the Effect ...
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 ...
Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during the English romantic period and was most famed for his ...
Few can resist JMW Turner’s swirling vortices and surreal ... But the murk and abstraction of Turner’s maelstrom were new. Many reacted with defensive sarcasm. One writer sneered that ...
Turner simply signed his works ‘W Turner’ and even now most of us are familiar with him as ‘JMW Turner.’” Financial gain is spurring the trend, too. “The high prices that these early ...
Timothy Spall grunts, groans, spits and sputters his way through "Mr. Turner," a portrait of the 19th-century British artist J.M.W. Turner that is as suffused with watery light, ethereal feeling ...
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 ...
JMW Turner was a bit of an eccentric, as well as a recluse, but on the rare occasion that he did attend a party or gathering, he always had interesting stories to tell. One of his most intriguing ...
By Michael Prodger JMW Turner baffled his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career he was a prodigy, a preternaturally gifted tyro who joined the Royal Academy Schools at 14, and at 15 became ...
A year-long festival of exhibitions and events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of artist JMW Turner has been announced. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and ...