Beach Scene
James McNeill Whistler · probably 1885 · watercolor and traces of gouache on off-white paper mounted on paperboard
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About this picture
Beach Scene is a public-domain drawing by James McNeill Whistler, dated probably 1885. Watercolor and traces of gouache on off-white paper mounted on paperboard. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Beach Scene” (probably 1885) 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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