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AT-00000171Study for "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle"
Inscriptions
Signed at right with butterfly
Provenance
Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871–1964; born Emily Crane; also Mrs. Thomas Chadbourne), Chicago and Stone Ridge, NY, by 1956; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.
Exhibition history
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Four Centuries of American Art, Nov. 27 – Jan. 19, 1964, as Study for the Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago, Mar. 4–May 21, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, "Study for 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle,'" The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y135 (ill.). Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 15 (ill.), http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
- Date
- 1872–73
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.6 × 21 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Modernism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Accession no.
- 1956.763
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