The Garden Porch

1894

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image is a sketch viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. There is no distinct horizon but a line could be imagined along the top portion of the sketch. The line work is delicate, featuring light and varied pencil strokes in an impressionistic style. The color palette is simple, using pencil on beige-toned paper. Figures of people are visible, with one woman prominently wearing a long dress and others gathered in conversation. The background includes architectural elements, such as windows and arches, blending into leafy textures suggesting a garden setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.5 × 16.2 cm (8 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 31.9 × 22.2 cm (12 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8789

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 88

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 140.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 274-275, no. 88.

Wikidata ID

Q65022206

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