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

 

Cremorne Gardens

Cremorne Gardens may date from between 1875 and 1877, when other Cremorne subjects were painted.


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

                Nocturne: Black and Gold – The Fire Wheel, Tate
Nocturne: Black and Gold – The Fire Wheel, Tate

The title appears in the catalogue of the Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903 (cat. no. 6). It may well have been one of the other Cremorne subjects.

These included Cremorne, No. 1 [YMSM 163], 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 Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket [YMSM 170]. 1

Notes:

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

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret