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Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water, 1872. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 51 × 76.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism · Modernism
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- Museum title
- Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51 × 76.7 cm (20 1/16 × 30 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Stickney Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.