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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.177
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Brown and Gold: Lillie "In our Alley!"
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1896
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230452

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.2 x 30.7 cm (20 3/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
framed: 71.1 x 51.4 x 7 cm (28 x 20 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, center strecher, black ink: Maison CHAPUIS / [illegible text] / [illegible text] / 20, Quai de la Magisserie / 3 Rue les Bonrodonnais [?], 2
  • stamp: verso of frame, impressed: M. Grieve / Hand Carved / New York and London

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold by the artist to J.J. Cowan, Edinburgh, February 8, 1899. Hunt Henderson, by 1934, bequest; to Tulane University, 1939, sold [through Macdonald Gallery, New York]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, April 1941, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.177
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, exh. cat. (London, 1899)
  • Thomas R. Way, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1903), p. 50; reproduced opposite p. 50
  • New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late J. McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, England, 1905), no. 18, p. 81, reproduced opposite p. 44
  • Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 379, p. 213
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, J. B. Lippincott/W. Heinemann (Philadelphia, PA and London, England, 1908), vol. II, p. 205, 207, 224; reproduced opposite p. 204
  • Bernhard Sickert, Whistler, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1908), no. 116, p. 167
  • T. Martin Wood, Whistler: Masterpieces in Color, ed. T. Lehman Hare, T. C. & E. C. Jack (London, England, 1908), reproduced plate V, opposite p. 38
  • James Laver, Whistler, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (New York, NY, 1930), p. 285
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 94, ill.
  • Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I, no. 464, p. 203, and vol. II, reproduced in b/w pl. 298
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 477-478, cat. 219, ill.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 494-95, cat. 219, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 433, cat. no. 460, reproduced in color

Exhibition History

  • Twelfth Summer Exhibition, New Gallery, London, 04/24/1899 - 08/07/1899
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler: First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, London, 02/22/1905 - 04/15/1905
  • Paintings, Etchings and Lithographs by James M. Whistler, Kennedy and Co., New York, 11/01/1916 - 12/09/1916
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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