Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket

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. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1875) is currently displayed at Detroit Institute of Arts.