The Evening Star (painting)

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The Evening Star
Turner - The Evening Star, about 1830, NG1991.jpg
Artist J. M. W. Turner
Yearc.1830
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions91.1 cm× 122.6 cm(35.9 in× 48.3 in)
Location National Gallery, London
AccessionNG1991
Website nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-evening-star

The Evening Star is an 1830 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] It features a coastal scene on a beach with a boy with a shrimping net wading out of the water to be greeted by his dog. It gained its title several decades after Turner painted it due to the presence of a single star visible in the sky. [2]

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The painting was exhibited with other works by Turner at the Tate Gallery in 1906, where critics compared it to more recent works by James McNeill Whistler. [3] It is in the possession of the National Gallery in London, having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856. [2]

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References

  1. Hardy p.34
  2. 1 2 "The Evening Star - Joseph Mallord William Turner". National Gallery . Archived from the original on January 15, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
  3. Smiles p.131-132

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