A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third, a brown structure is surrounded by golden yellow and pine-green forms like clouds. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes, so much of the detail is indistinct, and the view seems hazy. Clouds spiral around the sun or moon, painted as a pale yellow disk, hanging in the center of the sky. The golden yellow clouds near the center darken to slate gray then rust brown, and nearly wine red along the top edge. A flock of birds painted as a dense band of navy and denim-blue Vs…

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The Evening of the Deluge

Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775 - 1851)

c. 1843

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 76 × 76 cm (29 15/16 × 29 15/16 in.) ; framed: 99.06 × 98.43 × 11.43 cm (39 × 38 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Culture: British
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Timken Collection
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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