Turner: In Light and Shade: Luminous proof that printing is a genuine art form
Look at Turner’s mezzotints, and it can be hard to believe they’re just dots of ink in the grooves of a copper plate ...
Houston museum showcases British landscape watercolors from the 18th and 19th centuries
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Picturing Nature," featuring 70 British landscape watercolors and drawings from ...
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Someone Sent a Fuzzy Photo of a Painting to Christie’s. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Watercolor by J.M.W. Turner
Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes. He painted landscapes and seascapes with a unique attention to light and ...
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JMW Turner celebrated with year-long festival
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and was considered one of the greatest Romantic artists, famous for his landscapes and seascapes. Amongst the events planned for ...
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Exhibitions and BBC film will celebrate legacy of Turner on 250th anniversary
The legacy of English romantic painter JMW Turner will be celebrated ... explore his connections to 19th Century novelist Jane Austen and Turner’s fellow Romantic landscape painter, John Constable.