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

 

YMSM 168
Cremorne

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

Cremorne

Titles

Only one title is known:

  • 'Cremorne' (1877, Whistler). 1
  • 'Cremorne' (YMSM, 1980). 2

Description

Unknown.

Site

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Detroit Institute of Arts
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Detroit Institute of Arts

Cremorne Gardens were pleasure gardens in Chelsea, on the Thames, in London. Whistler's Cremorne subjects 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 famous (or notorious) Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket [YMSM 170].

Notes:

1: Whistler to A. Chapman, [November 1877], GUW #09037.

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

Last updated: 20th May 2021 by Margaret