Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, oil, 1812
The son of a barber, the grandson of a butcher, J. M. W. Turner never had the university education that might put him at ease among his society patrons or fellow members of the Royal Academy. Short and stocky, he was unmistakably a child of [...]

For your viewing pleasure, tonight’s episode of “Think” (airing at 7:30 p.m. on KERA-13) is embedded below. It features Dorothy Kosinski, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, talking about the museum’s upcoming J.M.W. Turner exhibit. Also, Rebecca Murphy, [...]