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

 

M.0667
r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.86
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 5 3/8 x 4 7/16" (137 x 113 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'CONNIE GILCHRIST? BY WHISTLER' and '#2' in unknown hands

r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 667) as 'r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo'.

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 21, repr. f.p. 20 as "Connie Gilchrist as `The Skipping Girl'."

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret