Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

A Winter Fog [deleted]

Technique

The colour was monochomatic, described in the Athenaeum as 'an unusually excellent specimen of the ability of the artist to deal with monochrome effects in great breadth and richness of local colouring'. 1 See Nocturne: Trafalgar Square - Snow [YMSM 173]

Notes:

1: Athenaeum, 22 April 1876, p. 572.

Last updated: 15th November 2019 by Margaret