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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
A paddle steamer fights a violent storm at sea, and J. M. W. Turner paints the struggle as a dark, swirling vortex. This gallery tour reads the painting's composition, colour and brushwork against the Romantic idea of the sublime, and separates what the evidence establishes from what later tellers added.
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
A docent-led reading of Turner's 1839 painting of the veteran warship Temeraire on its final voyage, towed up the Thames by a steam tug toward the breaker's yard. The tour moves from the depicted event to the composition, the sunset symbolism, and the painting's place in a changing industrial age.
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