The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

The Garden

The Garden

1879–80
(American, 1834–1903)
Catalogue raisonné: Kennedy 210; MacDonald 194
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This print is among the only ones in James McNeill Whistler's Second Venice Set without a clearly identifiable setting.

Description

Part of an expatriate community in Venice, James McNeill Whistler focused on the city’s architectural details in the prints, drawings, and paintings that he made during a year spent living there. This etching presents a private garden from the perspective of one of the city’s distinctive canals. Seen through an open doorway, the view, offers a voyeuristic glimpse of its inhabitants’ lives. Situated outside and looking into a lush garden, the viewer is placed in the artist’s position, able to feel his excitement as an outsider exploring a new but historied place.
  • ?-1923
    Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1923-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
    Paper: The Continuous Thread. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 31-October 24, 1982).
  • {{cite web|title=The Garden|url=false|author=James McNeill Whistler|year=1879–80|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1923.31