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James McNeill Whistler

Jo's Bent Head, 1861

Not on View

Medium

drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.86 × 14.92 cm (9 × 5 7/8 in.)

sheet: 34.77 × 25.24 cm (13 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 88, iii/iii

Accession Number

2015.19.874

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Provenance

Mrs. Rudyerd Boultuon, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1956; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: Artists and Their Circles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 25

1984: La Femme, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, 1984-1985

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 36, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 78.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 88, iii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

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