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

 

M.0712
Connie Gilchrist

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: Lucas Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Accession Number:
Medium: pencil
Support: BMA L33.53.8310
Size: 8 1/4 x 5 5/16" (210 x 135 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: r.: 'CONNIE G'; v.: 'Oxford drawings/ Connie Gilchrist' in unknown hand

Connie Gilchrist

Composition

Connie Gilchrist, Baltimore Museum of Art
Connie Gilchrist, Baltimore Museum of Art
Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist, Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a sketch of Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist [YMSM 190]. The Pennells wrote that 'in friends' houses, he would make little sketches of pictures he was working on, and one evening he left with Mr. Cole [a sketch] ... of the Connie Gilchrist.' 1

Conservation History

Connie Gilchrist [M.0712] appears to be the left half of a sheet of writing paper, and Study of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder' [M.0713], the right half.

Notes:

1: Pennell 1908 [more] , vol. 1, p. 202.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret