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    The Artist in His Studio
    James McNeill Whistler. The Artist in His Studio, 1865–66. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001162

    The Artist in His Studio

    by James McNeill Whistler

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Artist insignia recto, right-bottom, on wall, in dark paint: [butterfly in cartouche].

    Provenance

    The artist, Paris, then London; consigned to Goupil Gallery, London, December 1896; sold to Douglas William Freshfield (1845–1934), London, by October 1897; with Brown & Phillips, London, sold to P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach, London, by 1911; partial share sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, August 24, 1911; probably consigned to Henry Reinhardt Galleries, New York and Chicago, 1911; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1912; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1912.

    Exhibition history

    Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 40, as In the Studio. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. 1. WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat. IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 2, as The Artist in the Studio. Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago, Mar. 4–May 21, 2017, no cat. London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Feb. 23–May 23, 2022; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, July 3–Oct. 10, 2022, cat. (ill. pl. 38).

    Publications

    George William Eggers, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 153, cat. 433 (ill.), as In the Studio, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w. Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 40, as In the Studio. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 11. Margaret F. MacDonald and Grischka Petri, "The Artist in His Studio (Whistler in His Studio)," The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, cat. YMSM 063 (ill.), as The Artist in His Studio (Whistler in His Studio), https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y063. Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 8 (ill.), http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler. Carol Jacobi, ed., James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (Tate Enterprises, 2026), 14, 68, 71, 74, 156, 158, no cat. no. (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
    Date
    1865–66
    Medium
    Oil on paper mounted on panel
    Dimensions
    Board: 62 × 46.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Overall: 63 × 47.3 cm (24 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    London
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection
    Accession no.
    1912.141

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