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The Artist in His Studio
James McNeill Whistler · 1865–66
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Paris, then London; consigned to Goupil Gallery, London, December 1896; sold to Douglas William Freshfield (1845–1934), London, by October 1897; with Brown & Phillips, London, sold to P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach, London, by 1911; partial share sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, August 24, 1911; probably consigned to Henry Reinhardt Galleries, New York and Chicago, 1911; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1912; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1912.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 40, as <em>In the Studio</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Summer Exhibitions</em>, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. 1.
- WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Nineteenth Century American Masters</em>, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 2, as <em>The Artist in the Studio</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago</em>, Mar. 4–May 21, 2017, no cat.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, <em>The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler</em>, Feb. 23–May 23, 2022; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, July 3–Oct. 10, 2022, cat. (ill. pl. 38).
Literature
Published references
- George William Eggers, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 153, cat. 433 (ill.), as <em>In the Studio</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w</a>.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 40, as <em>In the Studio</em>.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 11.
- Margaret F. MacDonald and Grischka Petri, "The Artist in His Studio (Whistler in His Studio)," <em>The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné</em>, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, cat. YMSM 063 (ill.), as <em>The Artist in His Studio (Whistler in His Studio)</em>,<a href="https://www.whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y063&xml=dat"> https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y063</a>.
- Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., <em>Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 8 (ill.), <a href="http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler">http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler</a>.
- Carol Jacobi, ed., <em>James McNeill Whistler</em>, exh. cat. (Tate Enterprises, 2026), 14, 68, 71, 74, 156, 158, no cat. no. (ill.).
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