Green and Blue: The Dancer
James McNeill Whistler · c. 1893 · Watercolor and opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on brown wove paper laid down on card
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Green and Blue: The Dancer is a public-domain drawing by James McNeill Whistler, dated c. 1893. Watercolor and opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on brown wove paper laid down on card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Green and Blue: The Dancer” (c. 1893) is meant to be read as a harmony of tone. Whistler often called such pictures arrangements or nocturnes rather than views of a place.
About the artist
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American artist working in London and Paris. He titled many pictures as arrangements or nocturnes, asking that they be seen as harmonies of tone, not only as portraits of a place.
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