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Coast Scene, Bathers, 1884–85
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Artist | James McNeill Whistler |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1884-1885 |
| Description | In this intimately scaled seascape, James McNeill Whistler employed the sparest of compositional elements to evoke a coastal atmosphere. Broad horizontal bands of blues and gray suggest sky, ocean, and sand, with dabs of thin pigment giving economical, yet expressive form to around a dozen figures on the windswept beach. Whistler dedicated much of his artistic practice to capturing the mood and color harmonies of marine scenes. Coast Scene, Bathers was painted en plein air, a practice to which the artist returned in the 1880s. It marked a distinctive shift from his studio-produced Nocturnes of the previous decade. [A work made of oil on panel.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Painting Landscape Oil Paint (paint) Impressionism Organic Material American Arts Modernism Artworks Arts of the Americas |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Painting |
| Object Type | Painting |
