Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish 1837–1838 Oil on canvas, 174.5 × 224.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this massive painting, celebrated British landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner pursued a theme of…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Bateaux en mer, soleil couchant (Boats at sea, setting sun) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 43 × 94 cm Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Vue de mer, temps calme (Sea View, Calm Weather) 1864 Oil on canvas, 73.6 × 92.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This is one of Édouard Manet’s earliest paintings of the sea, a subject to which he…