1886
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A Fragment of Piccadilly is a 1886 by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Street, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a slice of night-time London: gas lamps glow in the rain, their light pooling on wet pavement. Whistler painted this in just a few hours, working from memory. He called these quick, atmospheric sketches “nocturnes.” The brushstrokes are loose—almost like he’s sketching with paint instead of pencil. If you like this quiet glow, look up the technique called *impasto*.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
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