J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)," 1840. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) In this last room of “Turner’s ...

The atrocity was immortalized in J.M.W Turner’s painting “The Slave Ship” (1840), originally titled “Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on.” Sondra Perry ...

More information: 617-267-9300, mfa.org J.M.W. Turner, in "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon Coming On)," was in no way subtle about the subject matter of the ...

The critic John Ruskin, the first owner of Slave Ship, wrote, “If I were reduced to rest Turner’s immortality upon any single work, I should choose this.” With Typhoon coming on ...

It’s the MFA’s dark honor to own what might be Turner’s most powerful painting, and surely his most chilling: “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On ...

The original Turner painting belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist was inspired by the true story of the slave ship Zong, where crew members would cruelly throw sick and dying ...

Britain’s commander of the churning waves was also a painter of technology and industry. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston shows how he reshaped an art form. By Jason Farago BOSTON — Driving ...

In 1840, at the age of 64, Turner painted Slave Ship, which received nothing but condemnation from the critics. Not only did they hate the loose brushwork and violent palette but found the scene’s ...

On the other hand, Turner ... of working on slave ships, intelligence that would feed into one his greatest paintings, “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On.” ...