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 ...
Dr Melissa Gustin, curator of British art at National Museums Liverpool, said the Turner: Always Contemporary exhibition was ...
When the Houses of Parliament caught fire on the evening of October 16, 1834, tens of thousands of Londoners gathered to watch the conflagration from the banks of the Thames. For the painter JMW ...
LONDON (AP) — A German landscape by the quintessentially English painter J.M.W. Turner could fetch 25 million pounds ($31.2 million) when it is auctioned next month. Sotheby’s auction house says ...
Since she created a bridge between Abstract Expressionism (specifically Pollock, with his drip technique) and later Color Field painting with her innovative staining method with thinned, poured paint, ...
Our first impressions of people and things don't always hold up well. Consider how the British art world first reacted to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. Martha Teichner guides us through his life and ...
Few painters have a more capacious and disorienting reputation than Joseph Mallord William Turner. The son of an English barber father and a mentally unstable mother, the precocious Turner (1775-1851) ...
On Jan. 14, the Kimbell Art Museum will premiere an online lecture by two world experts on the 19th century, exploring one of the most important paintings of the Romantic period. At first glance, ...
Claude Monet is best known for his stunning depictions of water lilies at his garden in northern France. But throughout the mid-1800s and early 1900s, the artist also frequently painted less romantic ...
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 ...
In the 250 years since the artist was born, the natural world he loved so much has changed. But he still reminds us to look with truth, clarity, and feeling. By Emily LaBarge and Tom Jamieson A writer ...
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