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

 

M.0370
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.608
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 10 1/2 x 6 1/2" (266 x 166 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve

Composition

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

This drawing may be a study for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and is also closely related to the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls [YMSM 087] and The Three Girls [YMSM 088]. It is fairly highly finished, and was signed, possibly for sale, in 1890.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret