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Artists›James McNeill Whistler, American

James McNeill Whistler, American

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WA-00042032

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Artworks (21)

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

1894 · Oil on canvas

210.7 × 93.3 cm (82 15/16 × 36 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Confidence in the Garden

1894 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Butterfly

1890 · Graphite on ivory wove paper

19.2 × 12.9 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Violin Player

1889 · oil on canvas

Unframed: 79 x 53.3 cm (31 1/8 x 21 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Coast Scene, Bathers

1884 · Oil on panel

13.3 × 21.9 cm (5 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret

1883 · Oil on canvas

76 1/8 x 35 3/4 in. (193.4 x 90.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Garden

1879 · etching and drypoint

Cleveland Museum of Art

Nocturne: Palaces

1879 · Etching and drypoint; printed in dark brown ink on drum mounted medium weight ivory laid paper.

Sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (29.2 × 19.8 cm) Plate: 11 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (29.2 × 19.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nocturne

1878 · lithograph on chine collé

Sheet: 17.1 x 26 cm (6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea)

1878 · Lithotint with scraping on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in soft gray-black ink on pale blue laid chine mounted on ivory wove plate paper; second state of two (Chicago)

Image: 6 3/4 × 10 3/16 in. (17.1 × 25.9 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 19 5/16 in. (34.3 × 49 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Toilet

1878 · Lithotint, with scraping and incising, on a prepared half-tint ground; second state of five

Image: 10 1/8 x 6 7/16 in. (25.7 x 16.4 cm) Sheet: 12 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (30.8 x 19.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Yellow Room

1878 · Watercolor and gouache on paperboard

9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water

1872 · Oil on canvas

51 × 76.7 cm (20 1/16 × 30 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cremorne Gardens, No. 2

1867 · Oil on canvas

27 x 53 1/8 in. (68.6 x 134.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)

1867 · black chalk and pastel

Sheet: 27.9 x 17.6 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 38.5 x 28.9 cm (15 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Artist in His Studio

1865 · Oil on paper mounted on panel

Board: 62 × 46.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Overall: 63 × 47.3 cm (24 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach

1863 · Oil on canvas

50.8 × 68.6 cm (20 × 27 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Storm

1861 · drypoint

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Old Rag Woman, No. 10

1858 · etching with chine collé

Plate: 20.8 x 14.8 cm (8 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Design cover for West Point Song of the Graduates

1852 · Transfer lithograph in black on off-white wove paper

Image: 33.6 × 22.2 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 34.1 × 26.1 cm (13 7/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Captain Cuttle (a Character from Charles Dickens's "Dombey and Son") (from Sketchbook)

1851 · Pen and iron-gall ink on white wove paper

1 5/8 x 2 3/16 in. (4.1 x 5.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (4)

21 published of 42 catalogued · 42 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute Chicago
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The Met
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7 entries · 1 sources

The Old Rag Woman, No. 10
1858 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)
1867 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Garden
1879 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Violin Player
1889 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Confidence in the Garden
1894 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Nocturne
1878 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Storm
1861 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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