Yellow House, Lannion
Medium
Transfer lithograph, with scraping on stone, from fine-grained transfer paper (keystone) and thin, transparent transfer paper (color stones), in color (black, warm gray, dark brown, red brown, green-gray, gray and ochre) on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
31.9 × 20.5 cm (12 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
transfer lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
156322
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...