Joseph Mallord William Turner ranks among Britain's most famous artists, celebrated today for landscapes that rankled his ...

The Lowndes/Valdosta Arts Commission has received a $10,000 grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts. This grant, known as ...

No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist - IN FOCUS: It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker ...

An antique collector made a huge profit after buying an oil painting for £400 and selling it for £1.9 million. He later ...

Lisa Pumphrey Turner, 73, a Washington artist who sat on the boards of several cultural and philanthropic organizations, died Feb. 26 at her home in Bonita Springs, Fla. She had amyotrophic ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight’ (1835) Photo: National Gallery of Art, Washington/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...

The Turner Prize recognizes work created by British artists over the past 12 months and awards £25,000 ($31,000) to the winners. Meanwhile, shortlisted artists receive £10,000 ($13,000).

Mr. Turner enrolled at City College, where he was on the fencing team. He started out as a mathematics major but changed to art, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1965.

On Tuesday night, in an announcement likely to baffle the art world, the Turner Prize’s jury said that all four artists, who had been shortlisted for Britain’s leading art prize back in May ...