New York, NY, USA: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "James Mallord William Turner has been termed England's greatest painter. In a career that spanned the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, he painted landscapes- luminous, mystic visions of nature- that forecast some of the most avant-garde of twentieth-century painting, frequently leaping beyond the Impressionists. The treatment of light in Turner's work, seen especially..... More