. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 8—Portrait of Washington. Gilbert Stuart. Boston,Muscuin of Fine Fig. 9—Slave Sliip. Ttirnor. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. BOSTON 39 IS not even a fine bouquet of color. We maynot agree that it looks like a tortoise-shell cathaving a fit in a platter of tomatoes, yet wedo feel that Turner needed to use commonsense in painting chains and sharks and hu-man beings in the water. The lurid lightstreaming through the trough of the angry seaintensifies a scene already too horrible. Itseems a pity that a man who first revealed tous the sunlight in all its
. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 8—Portrait of Washington. Gilbert Stuart. Boston,Muscuin of Fine Fig. 9—Slave Sliip. Ttirnor. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. BOSTON 39 IS not even a fine bouquet of color. We maynot agree that it looks like a tortoise-shell cathaving a fit in a platter of tomatoes, yet wedo feel that Turner needed to use commonsense in painting chains and sharks and hu-man beings in the water. The lurid lightstreaming through the trough of the angry seaintensifies a scene already too horrible. Itseems a pity that a man who first revealed tous the sunlight in all its glory should ever playwith it until the glory faded and only light re-mained to uncover ghastly details. However,when William Morris Hunt was asked if hethought the Slave Ship was worth ten thou-sand dollars, he replied, Well, I see a good many ten thousands ly-ing around, but only one Slave Ship. But what could we expect of a man so er-ratic as Turner? Listen to Wilkie Collinsmemory of him: A shabby, red-faced, oldishman—sitting on the top of a flight of steps,astride a box, with his dirty chest of c
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