Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0369
Study for 'Tillie: A Model'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46030
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 11 7/8 x 7 15/16" (301 x 201 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study for 'Tillie: A Model'

Composition

Study for 'Tillie: A Model', The Hunterian
Study for 'Tillie: A Model', The Hunterian
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

This may be a study for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and is closely related to the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls [YMSM 087] and The Three Girls [YMSM 088], and to another drawing, Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve [M.0370].

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 369).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret