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The Evening Star (painting)

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The Evening Star
ArtistJ. M. W. Turner
Yearc.1830
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions91.1 cm × 122.6 cm (35.9 in × 48.3 in)
LocationNational Gallery, London

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]

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.[4]

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  • Hardy, William. Turner. Chartwell books, 2003.
  • Smiles, Sam. J. M. W. Turner: The Making of a Modern Artist. Manchester University Press, 2007.