Claude Monet is best known for his stunning depictions of water lilies at his garden in northern France. But throughout the mid-1800s and early 1900s, the artist also frequently painted less ...

His landscape paintings became increasingly blurred, mystical and flooded with light. He used light to create atmosphere like few others. "Light is color" said Turner as early as 1818. It is said ...

Despite an intensely competitive nature and early acceptance as one of Britain’s leading artists, Turner remained at a distance from the mainstream art world. He didn’t write any major ...

Turner painted this rendition of St. David’s Cathedral at age 20, during an early, well-documented trip through Wales. According to Cheffins, the painting is the sole architectural study Turner ...

Many of the paintings on display are emblematic of Turner’s exploration of various European landscapes ... “You see this profound shift taking place … which is something that he learns so early on in ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half ...

Turner visited the French fishing port of Dieppe, Normandy, twice in the early 1820s before painting Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile in his London studio. He later also visited Cologne ...