The Peabody Essex Museum sets us sail for summer with its newest show, Turner & the Sea. This is a first-ever look at the British master’s half-century long attraction to ocean. The sea has always had ...

"Turner paints the veteran warship, hero of the battle of Trafalgar, as a pale and ghostly mass looming against a rich, panoramic sunset. It has a sense of latent power still not quite eclipsed by the ...

A Venetian cityscape by J.M.W. Turner, "Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore." (Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum) The Peabody Essex Museum opens at 10 a.m. on Thursdays and, typically, that's not ...

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 ...

In the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, a futuristic art gallery beside Switzerland’s most beautiful lake, the museum’s director, Fanni Fetzer, is showing me her new Turner exhibition. On the gallery walls are ...

And in these luminous late canvases, where colour-suffused light dissolves form, we find a path to Monet, Rothko, all those American colour field painters, even Twombly. But let’s stop right there.

An oil sketch created by JMW Turner on Margate's seafront is about to go on display in the Kent town to mark 250 years since artist's birth. Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate will be on show at ...

Movies about artists typically stumble toward their most basic goal: to link the paint on the canvas to the psyche of the painter. Ed Harris’s Pollock worked masterfully, as does Mr. Turner, British ...