Robert Barr
James McNeill Whistler
1894/1895
Medium
etching on brown wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 11 × 8.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 31.7 × 23.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8657
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 1834–1903
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...