Whistler’s Falling Rocket

James Abbott McNeill Whistler,  Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875, Oil on panel, 60.2 x 46.7 cm.   Detroit Institute of the Arts.

 

 

 

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James McNeill Whistler (1834—1903)

 

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Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling  Rocket

The Aesthetic  Movement