Roaring Forties (Frederick Judd Waugh)

The Roaring Forties
Year1908
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions121.9 cm × 152.7 cm (48.0 in × 60.1 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art

The Roaring Forties is a 1908 oil painting by Frederick Judd Waugh. The painting depicts a turbulent seascape in the Roaring Forties, the part of the Southern Hemispheric Ocean between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees famed for its dangerous storms. Along with Wild Weather, the work is one of two seascape paintings by Waugh on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1][2]

  1. ^ ".metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  2. ^ Dear, I. C. B.; Kemp, Peter, eds. (2007). "Roaring Forties". The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860616-8. OCLC 60793921. Retrieved 14 April 2011.