James McNeill Whistler
Battersea Reach from Lindsey Houses, c. 1863
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Note in Red: The Siesta, c. 1874
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Note in Gold and Silver - Dordrecht
Watercolour, c.1884
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturn Sun
Nocturne Grey and Gold - Canal, 1883-84 - James McNeill Whistler
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Softly the evening came
The sun from the western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden want o’er the landscape
Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest
Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
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~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whistler: Little Juniper Bud Lizzie
James McNeill Whistler, Annabel Lee, 1890