The Heights of the Sublime
HE FRIST ART Museum in Nashville, Tenn., is offering visitors a special opportunity to see a career-spanning selection of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), considered one of the greatest British artists in history, if not the greatest. A key figure in the Romantic movement and a master of landscape and light, Turner created paintings whose bold effects seem to prefigure aspects of modern art. “J.M.W. Turner: Quest for the Sublime,” on view through May 31 at the Frist’s Ingram Gallery, presents around 75 dating from the 1790s through the late 1840s, ranging from paintings of ancient history to views of Venice and the Swiss Alps to the atmospheric seascape and
