The Yellow Room
James McNeill Whistler
ca. 1883–84
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2017
Accession Number
2017.664
Tags
FireplacesInteriorsWomen
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...