I want to see the painting "The Toilers of the Sea"

Search: toilers of the sea ryder

Why: In The New Yorker Talk of the Town, Peter Wolf (lead singer of J. Geils Band, ...) says this painting by Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917) inspired him when he first saw it in a magazine at 13.

"It had this elegant primitivism that I responded to very strongly," he said. At first glance, the picture looks like a seascape - a boat in the moonlight on a troubled sea - but on close study it departs from perspective and realism in subtle ways, and the effect is dreamlike... Somehow, the artist manages to illuminate the night without losing the feel of the darkest hour.

I'll be the judge of that.

Answer: Well, which is it?

I think the last one, since that's the one on the page of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is where the original painting is now. Also, this article has a lot of talk about the shade of yellow in it. But that other one sure does appear a lot. I don't know.

Source: Google Images

The More You Know: Peter Wolf was married to Faye Dunaway. As a boy, he studied painting with Norman Rockwell. He was also roommates with David Lynch at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Who knew?

He also released an album called Midnight Souvenirs a few weeks ago. It features Neko Case, Merle Haggard, and Shelby Lynne.