Joseph Mallord William Turner Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK The Pass of Saint Gotthard, Switzerland, 1803-04
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK A total of 5 works by J.M.W. Turner from the museum's prints and drawings collection
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Many works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK Virtual tour of Ruskin's collection of 25 Turner paintings
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 3 works online by Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner at the Louvre Museum, Paris View of the Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, watercolor, ca.1830
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Joseph Mallord William Turner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 38 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery, London, UK Paintings in depth: The Fighting Temeraire
Joseph Mallord William Turner at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 10 works by Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "J.M.W. Turner"
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  Paysage avec une rivière au loin et baie, 1835
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK Vast database of works from the Tate's collection, plus many illustrations of Turner's works in collections worldwide
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana, and Part of San Giorgio
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia 14 prints online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Scarborough town and castle: boys catching crabs, ca.1810
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK The Sun Rising through Vapour
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin Shields Lighthouse, ca.1826
Bolton Art Gallery, UK
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK Gibside from the North
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK Gibside from the South
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (You may need to click "I accept these terms") Lyme-Regis, Dorsetshire, England
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Turner: The Late Seascapes
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water, 1840
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 28 works by or related to the artist
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand Select the artist from the drop-down list
Falmouth Art Gallery, England 10 works online
Frick Collection, New York City 5 works online
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales Orléans Cathedral
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, England Margate, 1830
Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, England Pembroke Castle, ca.1829-30
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Glaucus and Scylla
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Joseph Mallord William Turner in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario Boston in Lincolnshire, ca.1833
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Quillebeuf, Mouth of the Seine
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese) 
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin The Castellated Rhine, ca.1832
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 4 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK The Battle of Trafalgar
National Museums Liverpool, UK Landscape, ca.1845
National Museums Liverpool, UK Overview page with 7 works online
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England Carlisle
Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 2 works by Joseph Mallord William Turner online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City Lucerne from the Lake
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City The Pass at Faido, St. Gotthard
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City 6 works online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Rainbow (see bottom row)
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, England Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devonshire, ca.1826
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Burning of the Houses of Parliament (October 16, 1834)
Seattle Art Museum Cologne from the River
Sheffield Galleries & Museums, UK The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Macon, 1803
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2007 exhibition
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Ramsgate Harbor from the Sea, ca.1815
Joseph Mallord William Turner at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK 4 paintings online
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Tyne & Wear Museums, England 3 works online
Tyne & Wear Museums, England Tivoli with the Temple of the Sibyl, pencil and watercolor
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England 4 works online
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Search results for "Joseph Mallord Turner"
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut Steamboat in a Storm, watercolor, ca.1841
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut Staffa, Fingal's Cave, 1831-32
York Art Gallery, UK The Dormitory and Transept of Fountains Abbey - Evening
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joseph Mallord William Turner  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine "John Ruskin: J.M.W. Turner's Most Passionate Defender" (2008)
Apollo Magazine Article: "A Turner reclaimed"
Art + Auction Magazine Artist Dossier -- "A dearth of privately held oils has made his watercolors - highly regarded by Turner himself - hot commodities"
Artnet Magazine Château en France, ca.1839-40
California Literary Review 2008 review, "The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner"
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "Turner: From Science to Art," article by Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "Turner's Abstract Majesty," article by Souren Melikian
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
Spartacus Educational Books
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio "The Brush of a Master: Turner's Watercolor Technique", an illustrated article in .PDF format
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Self-Portrait, ca.1799
The London Evening Standard "Bask in the glory of a true genius", 2000 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard "It's time the Tate traded in some Turners", 2007 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard "Nice little Turner for the Tate", 2007 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard "Turner's masterclass at the Tate", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard "Turner's trips", 2003 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer "In Late Seascapes, Turner Encountered His Great Romance", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Salander-O'Reilly Mounts Astounding Turner Show", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker "J.M.W. Turner at the Met", brief 2008 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine "England's Greatest Romantic", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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