Bead-Stringers, 1880

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series Title

Twenty-Six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to the platemark): 23.02 × 15.4 cm (9 1/16 × 6 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 235, state iv/xi

Accession Number

2015.19.403

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Provenance

Henry Harper Benedict, New York; (Harlow, McDonald & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Garfinckel, Julius

Exhibition History

1952: Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 33

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 51, repro

2003: Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 94, no. 46, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 198.

2003: Denker, Eric. Whistler and His Circle in Venice. Washington, DC: Merrell and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003, p. 94, no. 46.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 235, iv/xi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk