Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851), Regulus, 1828, reworked 1837, oil on canvas, Tate, London, Bequeathed by the Artist, 1856. © Tate, London

DALLAS, TX.-The Dallas Museum of Art presents the largest and most comprehensive retrospective ever presented in the United States of the career of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. The exhibition will open today in the J. E. R. Chilton Galleries, and will be the only U.S. showing south of the Mason-Dixon line.

J. M. W. Turner will consist of approximately 140 works, divided almost evenly between oils and works on paper, and will include masterworks representing his extensive range of subjects—seascapes, topographical views, historical events, mythology, modern life, and scenes from his own fertile imagination. Many of these works have never been shown in the United States.

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