The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

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: 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 y163, Nocturne: Cremorne Gardens, No. 3 y165, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens y166, Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel y169, and Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket y170. ¹

Images

Subject

Titles

Only one title is known:

• 'Cremorne Gardens' (1903, Philadelphia). ²
• 'Cremorne Gardens' (YMSM, 1980). ³

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

Whistler's paintings of Cremorne included Cremorne, No. 1 y163, Cremorne Gardens, No. 2 y164, Nocturne: Cremorne Gardens, No. 3 y165, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens y166, Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel y169, and (the most famous) Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket y170.

Technique

Technique

Unknown

Conservation History

Unknown

Frame

Unknown

History

Provenance

• 1903: owned by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York art dealer.

It was lent by E. G. Kennedy to the Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903 (cat. no. 6) as 'Cremorne Gardens'.

Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel, Tate

Kennedy is known to have had one Nocturne of Cremorne, Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel y169, in 1896, but there is no mention of another in his correspondence with Whistler.

Exhibitions

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

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 168a) as 'Cremorne Gardens'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903 (cat. no. 6) as 'Cremorne Gardens'.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• None.

Books, General

• None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• None.

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• None.

Unpublished

• None.

Other

• None.