Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a small boat carrying an elderly figure adrift on dark water, a glowing angel pointing toward a break of golden light in heavy storm clouds

The Voyage of Life: Old Age

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Thomas Cole, 1842

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1971.16.4

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In Hudson River School · Ocean · American painting

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