Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002249Head of a Girl, Jo
Inscriptions
Signed, recto, center right, in brown ink with artist's butterfly monogram
Provenance
Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Kate L. Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947), December 1929 [AIC archives, collection records list]; given by her husband Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1933.
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 327-328, no. 870 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler / American, 1834-1903
- Date
- c. 1882
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with scraping on cream laid paper laid down on ivory board
- Dimensions
- 12 × 9.3 cm (4 3/4 × 3 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1933.297
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