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

 

YMSM 168a
Cremorne Gardens

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1875/1877
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Cremorne Gardens

Titles

Only one title is known:

  • 'Cremorne Gardens' (1903, Philadelphia). 1
  • 'Cremorne Gardens' (YMSM, 1980). 2

Description

Unknown.

Site

Cremorne pleasure gardens, Chelsea, London, which closed to the public in 1877.

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Whistler's paintings of Cremorne included Cremorne, No. 1 [YMSM 163], Cremorne Gardens, No. 2 [YMSM 164], Nocturne: Cremorne Gardens, No. 3 [YMSM 165], Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens [YMSM 166], Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel [YMSM 169], and (the most famous) Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket [YMSM 170].

Notes:

1: Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903 (cat. no. 6).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 168a).

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret