1871
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Chelsea Bridge and Church is a 1871 by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a small boat tied to a post on a riverbank. Behind it, a bridge stretches across the water, with a church tower rising in the distance. The lines are loose and sketchy, almost like a quick drawing. The artist used lots of crosshatching—tiny parallel lines—to create shadows and texture. This gives the scene a rough, unfinished look. Look up impasto next to see how other artists build up thick paint.
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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