British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he traveled throughout Europe. But these works are extremely ...

A rare, rediscovered watercolor by JMW Turner could fetch a cool half-a-million when it hits the auction block at Christie’s New York next month. The foggy watercolor sketch of the Venetian lagoon was ...

J.M.W. Turner, Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel, St David’s, (1795). Courtesy Cheffins Auctioneers A J.M.W Turner watercolor that was acquired for a mere £100 ($127) in the early 1990s is now expected to fetch ...

The largest collection of watercolors by the British artist J.M.W. Turner opened at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut on Saturday. Nicholas Bell, senior vice president of curatorial affairs at ...

A historical museum might seem an unlikely place for an exhibit by one of the world’s foremost Romantic painters, but 97 watercolors by J.M.W. Turner are on the walls at Mystic Seaport, the only North ...

In an 1816 essay,William Hazlitt passed along this observation about England’s greatest painter: “Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.” Joseph Mallord ...

MYSTIC, Conn. — There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who like Joseph Mallord William Turner, and those who like him a lot. I say this because I don’t know how it’s possible to not at ...

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IF THE jaw-dropping sun at the center of J.M.W. Turner's seascape "Yacht Approaching the Coast" is the climax of the large and thoughtful exhibition on the great British painter at the Baltimore ...

Paintings from the final 16 years of the artist's life constitute the West Coast's first major exhibition of Turner's work. By Jordan Riefe Turner Show - H 2015 In 1835, J.M.W. Turner turned 60 at a ...

Inspired by Turner’s travels to Switzerland between 1841 and 1844, the watercolor captures what is considered one of the most dramatic landscapes in the Swiss Alps—a view of the picturesque village of ...

J.M.W. Turner, “Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile” (exhibited 1825, but subsequently dated 1826), oil on canvas, 68 3/8 x 88 3/4 inches (the Frick Collection, New York; photo by Michael ...