Two Sketches
<p>In contrast to lithographs made directly on lithographic stones, images for transfer are drawn in lithographic crayon on paper that is specifically coated to allow the drawings to be transferred to stones for professional printing. Whistler first tried the medium in 1878/79 and from 1887 onward used the transfer process almost exclusively to make his lithographs. Whistler’s printers, Thomas and Robert Way provided the specially prepared paper.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1878
- Dimensions
- 26.2 × 17.9 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
Artist
Painting
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".
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- James McNeill Whistler
- Year
- 1878
- Dimensions
- 26.2 × 17.9 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1878-015047
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified