The Manager's Window, Gaiety Theatre
<p>The original Gaiety Theatre was located on the Strand, with a stage entrance on Wellington Street, across the road from the offices of Whistler’s London printers, the Ways. The artist made three lithographs of the back of the theater, drawn from the Ways’ windows. He attended performances there as well, making two paintings of a member of the dancing troupe, “Gaiety Girl” Connie Gilchrist, whom he posed in his studio skipping rope in a replication of her performances on stage.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1896
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.3 × 13.6 cm (6 13/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Sheet: 25 × 19.3 cm (9 7/8 × 7 5/8 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
- 1896
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.3 × 13.6 cm (6 13/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Sheet: 25 × 19.3 cm (9 7/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1896-089962
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified