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A large, dark sailing ship to our left is stranded near the shore, angled dramatically away from us, in choppy waves under a periwinkle-blue sky streaked with gray and copper-colored clouds in this horizontal painting. Two tall masts on the ship angle steeply away, showing that the boat nearly lies on its side. The third mast is broken. The rigging is askew and the sails are tattered. Light catches a steel-blue band around the deck. Broken pieces of masts, swaths of limp, gray sails, thick rope, and a wooden barrel on its side are scattered along the beach in front of us. Bottle-green waves…

The Stranded Ship

Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796 - 1886)

1844 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation through Millennium Funds

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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