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    Green and Blue: The Dancer
    James McNeill Whistler. Green and Blue: The Dancer, c. 1893. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004508

    Green and Blue: The Dancer

    by James McNeill Whistler

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed, verso, lower right, in black ink: "8"

    Provenance

    R. A. Canfield, Providence, R.I., acquired directly from the artist, May 1903 [MacDonald 1995]; sold to Knoedler and Company, New York, March 1914 [MacDonald 1995]; sold to Harris Whittemore (1864-1927), April 1914 [MacDonald 1995]; sold, Christie's, New York, December 6, 1985, lot 178, to Peter Terian, New York [MacDonald 1995]. Sold by David Nisinson, New York to the Art Institute, 1988.

    Exhibition history

    Boston, Copley Society, "Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels, and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of he Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler," February 1904, cat. 96. Buffalo, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, "The Works of J. A. McNeill Whistler from the Collection of Mr. Richard Canfield of Providence, Rhode Island," September 10-October 10, 1909, cat. 3 (ill.). Berlin, Könikliche Akademie der Kunste, "Austellung Amerikanischer Kunst," March-April 1910, cat. 94; traveled to Munich, Royal Art Society, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Buffalo, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, "Oils, Water Colors, Pastels, and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler lent by Mr. Richard Canfield," March 7-April 27, 1911, cat. 13 (ill.). New York, Knoedler and Company, "Oils, Water Colors, Pastels, and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler," 1914, cat. 15. Boston, Museum of Fine Art, "Oils, Water-Colors, Drawings, and Prints by James McNeill Whistler," April 24-May 13, 1934, cat. 41. New York, Carroll Carstairs Gallery, "Whistler: pastels and water colours," January 12-February 5, 1938, cat.12. The Art Institute of Chicago, "From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: British Drawings from the Permanent Collection", December 20, 1988-April 24, 1989. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 60; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," June 6-August 30, 1998, pp. 56, 59, 60 and 75, cat. 108, fig. 67; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, October 2, 1998-January 3, 1999. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

    Publications

    Elisabeth L. Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist's Works (New York, 1907), opp. p. 42 (ill.), 171, no. 93. "Fifth Annual Exhibition...and an arrangement of seven works by James A. McNeill Whistler," Academy Notes Buffalo Fine Arts Academy V (January 1910), pp. 2-4 (ill.). "The Seventh Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists," Academy Notes Buffalo Fine Arts Academy VII (July 1912), p. 45 (ill.). Pierre Cabanne, Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 80 (ill.). Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 495-496, no. 1376 (ill.). Patrick Chaleyssin, James McNeill Whistler: The Strident Cry of the Butterfly (Bournemouth, U.K., 1995), p. 137 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), pp. 287 (detail ill.) and 303 (ill.). The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Judith A. Barter (Chicago, 2011), pp. 44-45 (ill., pl. 15). Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C., 2019), p. 129.

    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
    c. 1893
    Medium
    Watercolor and opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on brown wove paper laid down on card
    Dimensions
    27.5 × 18.3 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    watercolor
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Dr. William D. Shorey; through prior acquisitions of the Charles Deering Collection and through prior bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer
    Accession no.
    1988.219

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