Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002934Girl Reading in Bed
Inscriptions
Signed recto, left, in brown ink: [artist's butterfly monogram]; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "By Whistler"; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "9' (illegible) white / 3/4 white (illegible) / (illegible)"; inscribed verso, right center, in graphite: "11 1/2 x 9"; inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink: "8"
Provenance
Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings from the Charles Deering Collection,” May 1-July 1, 1928. Ann Arbor, Mich., The University of Michigan Museum of Art, "Whistler: The Later Years," Aug. 27-Oct. 8, 1978, cat. 54. Art Institute of Chicago, "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," June 6-Aug. 30, 1998, p. 31, cat. 19; also the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Oct. 2, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999.
Publications
W. McC. McK., “Drawings from the Charles Deering Collection," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22:5 (May 1928), p. 66. David Park Curry, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery, exh. cat. (Washington DC, 1984), p. 198, fig. 128.1. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 326-27, no. 867 (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 traces of graphite on pink wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 18 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Accession no.
- 1927.5877
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