1879, James McNeill Whistler, The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: The Adam and Eve was a local riverside pub in London, demolished to make way for the Chelsea Embankment, which opened in May 1874. Four years after the picturesque building was destroyed, Whistler looked backward relying chiefly on photographs to reconstruct a detailed and commercially appealing image complete with a tiny mud larka scavenger searching for salable junk on the river bottom at low tide.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change.
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1879, James McNeill Whistler, The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: The Adam and Eve was a local riverside pub in London, demolished to make way for the Chelsea Embankment, which opened in May 1874. Four years after the picturesque building was destroyed, Whistler looked backward relying chiefly on photographs to reconstruct a detailed and commercially appealing image complete with a tiny mud larka scavenger searching for salable junk on the river bottom at low tide.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change.
Link to other Whistler paintings.