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360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
Coordinates: 50°04′10″N 122°56′45″W. One of the 28 cabins on the Peak 2 Peak Gondola. The Peak 2 Peak Gondola is a tricable gondola lift at Whistler Blackcomb Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, linking Whistler Mountain 's Roundhouse Lodge with Blackcomb Mountain 's Rendezvous Lodge. It is the first lift to join the two side-by ...
68.3 cm × 51.2 cm (26 + 7⁄8 in × 20 + 1⁄8 in) Location. Tate Britain, London. Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge is a painting by the American artist James McNeill Whistler, painted around 1872–1875. It depicts Old Battersea Bridge as seen from below. The blue tonality of the work is characteristic of Whistler's style at ...
Sketch by Whistler, showing flowers which were later removed. Princess was painted between 1863 and 1865 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, with Christine Spartali, the sister of Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman, serving as the model; [1] Owen Edwards of Smithsonian Magazine describes Spartali as "an Anglo-Greek beauty whom all the artists of the day were clamoring to paint". [6]
Whistler was paid £5 a day (equivalent to £367 in 2023) over the 18 months it took to complete the work, and given a £100 bonus upon the work's completion (equivalent to £7,540 in 2023). [11] His assistant, Nan West, was paid £3 per day. West's role was to mix colours and prepare Whistler's designs to be transferred to the large canvas. [11]
Whistler Blackcomb was the centrepiece of a renewed bid on the part of nearby Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which they won in July 2003. Whistler Blackcomb hosted the alpine skiing events, including the men's and women's Olympic and Paralympic alpine skiing disciplines of downhill, Super-G, slalom, giant slalom and super combined. In ...
World Ski and Snowboard Festival iTunes Concert Series. The World Ski & Snowboard Festival (WSSF) was created by Doug Perry in 1996 as an annual celebration of snowsports, music, arts and mountain culture. [1] The Festival is held each April in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada [2] and has been recognized as the largest annual winter sports ...
Whistler is located on British Columbia Highway 99, also known as the "Sea to Sky Highway", approximately 58 km (36 mi) north of Squamish, and 125 km (76 mi) from Vancouver. The highway connects Whistler to the British Columbia Interior via Pemberton - Mount Currie to Lillooet and connections beyond to the Trans-Canada and Cariboo Highways.