Blue and Silver: Morning, Ajaccio / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.90
- Title
- Blue and Silver: Morning, Ajaccio
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- watercolor on Japan paper, mounted on board
- Object Creation Date
- 1901
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- Signed, l.r.: Fantin
- Dimensions
- 25.08 cm x 14.61 cm (9 7/8 in. x 5 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- This watercolor on Japan paper, mounted on board, is vertically oriented. The piece is very dark, with the forms barely visible and very abstract. The upper quarter of the piece is blue, white, and pink (presumably a morning sky). In the next quarter down is what appears to be a body of water reflecting the sky, which a city and hills on the fall side of the shore from the viewer. The lower half the work has abstract figures in brown and cream that appear to be on the shore. Compositionally, there is a zig-zag recession into space. The piece is surrounded by the white border of the board that it is mounted on.
- Subject Matter
- This work was painted at the end of Whistler’s life (he died in 1903). The artist was in poor health when he spent the winter of 1900-01 in Algiers and Ajaccio, Corsica. He painted, etched, and filled many notebooks with drawings, including over 1700 watercolors in his lifetime. He painted thinly, leaving areas blank to suggest light or texture. He outlined a subject in pencil or brush, and then added washes quickly with small brushes, altering, but rarely rubbing out.
- Secondary Keywords
- cityscapes
- corsica
- europe
- france
- geography
- locality
- modern and contemporary art
- movement
- people and occupations
- time
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 531 x 809
- File Size
- 24 KB
- Record
- 1955/1.90
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"Blue and Silver: Morning, Ajaccio; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1955-sl-1.90/1955_1.90.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
