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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take a walk back through the history of Western watercolor painting and you won’t have too far to travel. Up until the middle of the 18th century, the medium was limited to a largely cosmetic role and ...