It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson.

"People think it's a joke," he said. "I tell them you won't see me in uniform on April 2." William M. Turner, 62, first donned a postal uniform in 1973 as a temporary clerk in the Pittsfield post ...

“J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality” opened on March 29, as part of the YCBA’s opening after renovation closures. On Saturday, the Yale Center for British Art unveiled a new exhibit dedicated to the ...

The painting turned out to be a watercolor by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes.