The Garden
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 17 × 18.5 cm (6 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 30.9 × 21.3 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8698
Art Historical Context
### The Garden Step into the serene world of James McNeill Whistler’s *The Garden* (1891), a lithograph in black on wove paper, measuring just 17 × 18.5 cm. Created during the artist’s mature phase, this intimate print captures Whistler’s signature pursuit of harmony and atmosphere, evoking the Aesthetic movement’s mantra of “art for art’s sake Part of the National Gallery of Art’s Rosen Collection in the Prints department it exemplifies his late-19th-century experimentation with printmaking as a democratic medium, allowing subtle tonal gradations akin to his famed oil nocturnes. Whistler, a...
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...