Art · Skopia

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4 works

The Slave Ship

1840 · Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Boston

Turner took the Zong case, where a slaver threw its human cargo overboard for the insurance money, and set it under his most beautiful sunset.

★ 8.2

1872 · Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris

A critic seized on the word in the title to mock the whole group, and the insult ended up naming the movement.

★ 8.6

1839 · National Gallery, London

A steam tug hauls a Trafalgar warship off to be broken up. Turner refused to sell the picture and left it to the nation.

★ 9.1

1832 · Location unknown

Hokusai was in his seventies when he made this, using a Prussian blue newly imported from Europe, with Fuji small and calm in the trough.

★ 9.3