JMW Turner was an obsessively competitive painter who laboured to prove how much better he was than his predecessors, a major exhibition at Tate Britain will attempt to prove this autumn.

A self portrait painted by JMW Turner, that will be exhibited as part of the new Tate Britain exhibition Turner and the Masters
The British artist [...]

Don’t even think about a trip to the Clore Gallery to see Turner/Rothko – an even more meagre display, purporting to highlight the similarities between the English landscape painter and the American Abstract Expressionist.

“Black on Maroon” by Mark Rothko
The comparison is specious. Hanging Turner’s Three Seascapes of c1827 next to a typical Rothko isn’t just [...]

Turner & Italy begins in 1802, when the Peace of Amiens made travel on the Continent possible for British artists, and J M W Turner crossed the Alps for his first, brief glimpse of the country that was to play such a crucial role in his art.

J.M.W. Turner “Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight”, [...]

In keeping with annual tradition, the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) will go on display in the National Gallery of Ireland from 1-31 January 2009.
The 31 watercolours of the Vaughan Bequest on show span the artist’s career and include a number of examples from his Continental tours, which depict stunning [...]

“Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps” by artist Joseph William Mallord Turner
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “J.M.W. Turner” is a beast of a show. With nearly 150 works in oil and watercolor spanning more than half a century, it will either win you over or wear you out. Or it will alternate, [...]