Turner

by Ian Warrell
Contribution by Gillian Forrester

Published by the Yale Center for British Art/ Yale University Press

Hardcover, 144 Pages, 110 color illus. 
ISBN-13: 9780300279719

Publication date: March 18, 2025 
(available now exclusively online)

Description

JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775-1851) is one of the most revered names in the history of British art. Across a dazzling and prolific career spanning six decades, Turner continually broke new ground with his oils, watercolors, and prints. His evocative landscapes and dramatic marine paintings are widely considered the crowning achievement of British Romantic art.

This richly illustrated volume explores the Yale Center for British Art’s renowned Turner holdings—the largest outside the United Kingdom. Engaging texts by Ian Warrell and Gillian Forrester, two leading authorities on Turner, immerse the reader in the artist’s career, including his innovative printmaking practice. Placing Turner’s work within its historical and cultural contexts, Turner celebrates afresh the artist’s unique and uncompromising vision. 

Ian Warrell is an independent curator specializing in British art of the nineteenth century.

Gillian Forrester is an independent curator specializing in British art from the eighteenth century to the present and former senior curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art.