There is no shortage of 20th-century British artists who have made their name for pioneering a thoroughly modern approach to figurative painting at a time when abstraction was all the rage. Yet, while ...

For all the world attention they get, British abstract expressionists might as well be painting on another planet. The British public might even suspect that it’s one of those things that isn’t done.

Though Britain has had more than its share of internationally renowned sculptors in recent years, first-class English painters have been few and far between. Of those who have come forward, nearly all ...

Alongside Turner and Constable, female artists contributed to this very British genre By Michael Prodger The long-standing narrative of British art states that this nation emerged as a serious ...

J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...

Rachel Jones' "SMIIILLLLEEEE," from 2021, is among the works featured in “A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now” at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas. Chad Redmon / Courtesy of the ...