Kensington Gardens

About this work

A man walks through a park with trees and a path in the rain. Dark shapes suggest benches, trees, and a top hat. Everything feels quiet and damp. This print was made using lithography, a method where the artist draws with a greasy crayon on stone. The stone holds ink only where drawn, then presses the image onto paper. Whistler liked this technique because it let him work quickly and freely, almost like sketching. He made this during a series of foggy park scenes, using soft lines and smudges to show mist and weather. For more works made with this method, explore lithography.