James McNeill Whistler, 1885 - Coast Scene, Bathers - fine art print

What does the original description of the Art Institute Chicago state about this work of art made by James McNeill Whistler? (© - Art Institute Chicago - Art Institute Chicago)

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.

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This piece of art was made by the symbolist master James McNeill Whistler. The original was painted with the size: 13,8 × 22,1 cm (5 7/16 × 8 11/16 in) and was manufactured with the technique of oil on panel. The original artwork's inscription is the following: "butterfly monogram, lower right". The artpiece belongs to the Art Institute Chicago's digital art collection. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (public domain license). Furthermore, the artwork has the creditline: Walter S. Brewster Collection. Moreover, alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 16 : 9, which implies that the length is 78% longer than the width. The writer, illustrator, painter, etcher, lithographer James McNeill Whistler was a North American artist, whose artistic style was mainly Symbolism. The American artist was born in 1834 in Lowell, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, United States and passed away at the age of 69 in the year 1903 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.

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