Two Sketches of Landscape Pictures hung at the Society of British Artists
James McNeill Whistler · probably 1887 · graphite on laid paper
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About this picture
Two Sketches of Landscape Pictures hung at the Society of British Artists is a public-domain drawing by James McNeill Whistler, dated probably 1887. Graphite on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Two Sketches of Landscape Pictures hung at the Society of British Artists” (probably 1887) 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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