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Who Was J.M.W. Turner and Why Was He So Important?
Joseph Mallord William Turner ranks among Britain's most famous artists, celebrated today for landscapes that rankled his ...
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Kimbell will explore J.M.W. Turner’s controversial ‘Slave Ship ...
J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry ...
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At the MFA, the stormy seas of change in ‘Turner’s Modern World’
Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)," 1840. Henry Lillie Pierce Fund.
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J.M.W. Turner: Out of The Mist, a True Visionary
BALTIMORE -- Whether Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is the greatest English painter is a matter of dispute. But he's certainly the spaciest, and the most prophetic. The man confounds ...
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J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist - The New York Times
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen,” about 1805–06, ... J.M.W. Turner, “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, ...
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Insurgent Slave Still a Divisive, Intriguing Figure
Insurgent Slave Still a Divisive, ... Wednesday marks the 170th anniversary of Nat Turner's rebellion of slaves against their masters in remote Southampton County on the North Carolina border.