[SEMCO] Turner's Whaling Pictures & Moby Dick!

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
February 26, 
2018 
Teresa Izzo
   508-896-3867 ext. 137
tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents

  JMW Turner’s Whaling Pictures & Moby Dick

A program of readings for adults, exploring 
connections between Turner's whaling scenes
and Herman Melville's 1851 whaling epic Moby-Dick
with
   Storyteller Tom Lee

BREWSTER, MA ­The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents
JMW Turner’s Whaling Pictures & Moby Dick, a 
program of readings exploring connections between 
Turner’s whaling scenes and Herman Melville’s 
1851 whaling epic, Moby Dick with Storyteller
Tom Lee Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 1pm.

Reprising a program he presented at The 
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for 
their special exhibit “Turner’s Whaling 
Pictures,” Tom Lee will read from Melville’s 
magnificent novel, Moby Dick, and guide a visual 
exploration of Turner’s pictures, Melville’s 
prose, and the book that links the two together.

This connection between Melville and the great 
English painter JMW Turner leads some art 
historians to the tantalizing theory that 
Melville may have had Turner’s 
painting  “Whalers” in mind while describing the 
immense “boggy, soggy, squitchy picture” that 
hangs above the fireplace in the Spouter-Inn in 
chapter three of Moby-Dick. As additional proof, 
on the title page of his personal copy of Thomas 
Beale’s ‘Natural History of the Sperm Whale” 
Herman Melville wrote a brief notation in pencil, 
"Turner’s pictures of whalers were suggested by this book."

Tom Lee is a professional storyteller with 30 
years’ experience performing traditional stories, 
folktales, and myths for adults and for children. 
He is the artistic director of artsVOYAGE at 
Spencertown Academy in Spencertown, NY, and a 
roster artist with Arts for Learning in 
Connecticut. He also performs for adults in 
theaters, museums and at festivals throughout the 
country.  Join us for this engaging, evocative 
experience when Lee weaves the synergy of art and 
language between Turner and Melville.

Free with Museum Admission
For more information please call 508-896-3867, ext. 133

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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