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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paintings by the British painter William Turner (1775-1851) go on show. Martin Schutt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa The link between JMW ...
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A tribute to JMW Turner on the banks of the Tweed

A Berwickshire artist is to pay tribute to one of the UK’s greatest-ever painters at a site from which he drew great inspiration.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hamilton shared the broad strokes of his argument with the Guardian. There, he noted that although he’d used this very self-portrait on the cover of his 1997 Turner biography, he only properly ...
J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...
NEW HAVEN — How much is too much Turner? New England’s determined to put it to the test. The past few years have seen no less than four major showcases of the British firebrand’s catalytic oeuvre ...