The Garden
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 17 × 18.5 cm (6 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 31.6 × 20 cm (12 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8697
Art Historical Context
James McNeill Whistler's *The Garden* (1891) is a masterful lithograph in black on wove paper, capturing artist's refined sensitivity to tone and form. Measuring just 17 × 18.5 cm for the image on a larger 31.6 × 20 cm sheet, this intimate print invites close contemplation, evoking Whist lifelong pursuit of harmonious compositions. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Rosenwald Collection it exemplifies the Classification of Print within the CG-W Department. istler, a pivotal figure the Aesthetic movement, championed "art for art's sake," prioritizing subtle beauty over narrative. By 1891, he...
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...