James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
American, 1834-1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. Whistler was born on July 11, 1834, in Lowell. During his formative years in Paris in the 1850s, Whistler was influenced by the injunctions of the poet and theorist Charles Baudelaire that artists should take subjects from modern life and seek a new beauty in the teeming cities. Whistler's first major suite of prints, his French Set brought critical acclaim but disappointing sales. Seeking more generous patrons, he moved to London in 1859. Initially, under the influence of his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden, a pioneer of the etching revival, he began a series of superbly observed and finely detailed views of the River Thames with its shipping, thriving wharves and picturesque characters. In his Thames Set etchings, Whistler often introduced the figures of workmen, boatmen or loungers in the foregrounds. Whistler died on July 17, 1903, in London.
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Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Dealer: Allinson Gallery, Inc.
The Master Smith
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Master Smith. 1895. Lithograph. Way 84; Levy 123; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 120.i/ii. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 (sheet 76 x 5 3/8). Only 15 lifetime impressions (in 2 states) were listed by Way; Goulding printed 38 impressions on 14 December 1903. The stone was erased in 1903. Printed on cream wove proofing paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the stone. A fine impression of this extremely rare lithograph.
Tedeschi, Stratis, and Spink write, page 366: As originally transferred to stone, the image includes trial marks made with a pointed crayon to the left of the sitter's shoulder. There is also a smudge at lower right below the image and a small stry mark upper right. Only one impression of this state has been located. Now in the Britigh Museum, London, it once belonged to Thomas Way and is illustrated in the Levy (1975) catalogue.' The impression illustrated above lacks the stray mark on the right, as the sheet is too small to accommodate it.
Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink write, page 366: 'This portrait of George Govier, was drawn ad the master smith conversed with the artist during a break from his work. Govier was born in Lyme Regis...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Lithograph
Bibi Valentin
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Bibi Valentin. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 50 state ii; Glasgow catalog 34 state ii. 6 x 8 7/8 (sheet 8 11/16 x 10 11/16). Glasgow records 44 known impressions. A rich impression with burr, printed on watermarked laid paper with full margins. Signed and dated in the plate. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat
A young girl, sits facing the viewer, leaning on her left elbow, legs extended to left. She wears a high-necked smock and buttoned boots...
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19th Century American Modern James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Etching, Drypoint
Rue Furstenberg
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Rue Furstenberg. 1894. Lithograph. Way 59; Levy 90; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog 97. Only state. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/4 x 8 7/8). A fine ...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Lithograph
The Fair
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Fair. 1895-96. Lithograph. Way 92, Levy 144, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 135 state ii. Image 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 (sheet 13 x 9 5/8). A fine impression printed on antique cream-laid paper. Way lists 15-lifetime impressions (Goulding printed...
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Late 19th Century American Modern James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Drypoint, Etching
The Little Wheelwright's
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Little Wheelwright's. 1886. Etching. Kennedy 245; Glasgow 242. 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 (sheet 5 1/8 x 6 1/8). There was no lifetime edition. Glasgow lists only 13 other known impressions. A fine impression printed in black ink on white laid paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the plate. Housed in a 10 X 11 1/2 X 1-inch gold leaf period carved Celtic...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Etching
Venus
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Venus. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 59 state ii; Glasgow catalog 60 state ii. 6 x 9 (sheet 8 x 11 3/16). Glasgow records 27 known impressions. A very rich impression p...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Etching, Drypoint
Landscape with Horses.
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Kennedy catalog 36 state ii; Glasgow 45 state ii. Image: 4 7/8 x 7 3/4 (sheet 6 7/8 x 9 5/8).The Glasgow catalog records 32 known impressions. A scarce early etching -- there was no ...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Victoria Club
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Victoria Club. 1879 and 1887. Lithograph. Way catalog 11 state ii; Levy catalog 22; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog number 15 state ii. 8 x 5 3/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/16). A ri...
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Late 19th Century American Modern James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Rotherhithe
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Rotherhithe (Originally published as Wapping). 1860. Etching. Kennedy catalog 66 state iii; Glasgow catalog 70. state vi. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 12 7/8 x 9 1/2). Series: "Sixteen Etc...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Drypoint, Etching
Lindsey Row, Chelsea
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Lindsey Row, Chelsea. 1888. Lithograph. Way 20; Levy 33; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 23. 5 x 8. Edition of 56 posthumous impressions printed by Goulding, in addition to the 14 lifet...
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Late 19th Century American Modern James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Lithograph
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden. 1894. Lithograph. Way 54, Levy 85, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 90. 8 x 6 1/2(sheet 10 7/8 x 8 1/2). Edition of 25-lifetime impressions plus a few proofs re...
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Late 19th Century American Modern James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Lithograph
Chelsea Rags
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Rags.
Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations.
"And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...
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Late 19th Century American Modern James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Lithograph
The Venetian Mast
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Venetian Mast. 1879-80. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 195 state .vi; Glasgow catalog 219 state x/xii. 13 3/8 x 6 3/8. Glasgow records 53 impressions. A fine, atmospheric...
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1870s American Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art
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Drypoint, Etching
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The Little White Girl
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Joanna Hiffernan (ca. 1843 – after 1903) was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with Whistler and later the French painter Gustave Courbet. Whistler first met Hiffernan in 1860 while she was at a studio in Rathbone Place, and she went on to have a 6-year relationship with him, during which period she modeled for some of his most famous paintings. She was in France with Whistler during the summer of 1861, and while in Paris during the winter of 1861–62 she sat for Symphony in White...
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