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 ...

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 ...

Remember that time J.M.W. Turner grew a thumbnail long enough to be almost grotesque, to perforate the paper and lift the paint into an effect of rushing iridescence? Or the time he used a pumice ...

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 ...

You don’t have to venture far into the de Young Museum exhibit of British artist J.M.W. Turner’s works to see what Victorian rivals and critics found “wrong” about his paintings. In “Regulus,” the ...