James McNeill Whistler · 1871
Nocturne: Blue and Silver — Chelsea
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Whistler's first Nocturne — the Thames at Chelsea seen from his Lindsey Row window, a single boat, a single figure, the rest pure tonal dusk. Tate Britain.
Up to 14 × 11 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Nocturne: Blue and Silver — Chelsea
Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea is a painting by James McNeill Whistler, completed in 1871. It is the earliest of the London Nocturnes and was conceived on the same August evening as Variations in Violet and Green. The two paintings were exhibited together at the Dudley Gallery.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
All James McNeill Whistler prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
