Nocturne in Green and Gold

Nocturne in Green and Gold by James McNeill Whistler

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

25 1/8 x 30 3/8 in. (63.8 x 77.2 cm)

Classification

Painting

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harris C. Fahnestock, 1906

Accession Number

06.286

About the Artist

James McNeill Whistler · 18341903

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...

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