2014-08-24-Salem, MA-Peabody Essex Museum

Georgia, Liz and I drove up to Salem to visit the J.M.W.Turner exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum. Turner was one of the great romantic 17th Century English landscape painters and long one of my favorite artists. The exhibition was magnificent and comprehensive. We also visited the Peabody Essex's other galleries, including one of the most comprehensive collections of maritime paintings and models anywhere. The Peabody is also known for its many artifacts from the early days of the China and East Indies trade. In fact, the museum's founders were sea captains and traders from that era, when Salem was one of the pre-eminent ports of the early American Republic.