The Tyresmith

1890

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Thomas Robert Way

Printer, British, 1861/1862 - 1913

The Whirlwind

Publisher

This is a drawing of an interior scene with figures in a passageway. The drawing depicts a dimly lit interior scene where several figures are distributed throughout a passageway. The scene features a colonnaded structure with visible beams on the ceiling and a tiled floor. The main figures stand in the foreground and mid-ground, each engaged in their actions or posed in conversation. The sketch is executed in soft, subtle pencil strokes, focusing more on the play of light and shadow than detailed textures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bud and Fran Moreland Johns)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 16.83 × 17.5 cm (6 5/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 28.58 × 22.23 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3494

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 36

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C. and J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints, New York); Bud and Fran Moreland Johns, San Francisco, California, 2000; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Bibliography

1890

  • The Whirlwind 2, no. 20 (November 15, 1890).

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 27.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 152-153, no. 36.

Inscriptions

left center on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left margin in graphite by unknown hand: Whistler; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: [undeciphered] O / 5.00; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: APG15972

Markings

printed upper right in black ink: Presented with The Whirlwind, Nov. 15, 1890.

Wikidata ID

Q77010507

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