Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1837–38 · Oil on canvas
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish is a public-domain painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated 1837–38. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish” (1837–38) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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