Artist

Whistler

Westgate
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Whistler is an Impressionism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Whistler was the 19th-century painter who insisted on signing his paintings with a butterfly, as if art were a kind of delicate winged joke. He liked to sneak into the Thames at dawn just to watch the light hit the water before anyone else was up. His little watercolors of bridges and boats are so quiet you almost miss the way he turns a smudge of blue into the whole river.

Slide into Whistler’s world via Westgate, a single sheet of paper that somehow holds the whole of a Victorian seaside town without breaking a sweat.

Works by Whistler

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.