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“Ken Marschall’s paintings don’t just show the Titanic—they make you feel you could step into them.” — Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the wreck.

Marschall’s paintings vividly recreate the midnight collision, the progressive flooding, the final plunge, and the ship snapping in two.

Before the 1985 discovery of the wreck by Robert Ballard, the Titanic existed in the public imagination largely through grainy black-and-white photographs and survivor sketches. Marschall changed that. He did not just paint the ship; he lit it.