Technique
Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
It is painted thinly and fluidly on a grey primed panel. The horizontal wood of the fence has been scraped out with a knife or the end of the brush. The figures are painted with a small brush and thicker, more creamy paint, each stroke being clearly differentiated.
Whistler occasionally used a palette knife for painting (or mixing paint) at this time, as noted in the diary of George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) on 18 September, after Whistler had spent a day with him: 'At Pottiers and left Whistler palette knife to mail to Dieppe.' 1
Conservation History
Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, photograph, ca 1930
An early photograph shows some abrasion along the lower edge, but otherwise the painting was, and is, in good condition.
Frame
Size of painting framed, 10 × 13 3/4 × 1 ½".
Last updated: 13th November 2020 by Margaret
