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

 

YMSM 554
Head of a Girl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1903
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Head of a Girl

Head of a Girl dates from 1903. 1 In 1903, according to Way & Dennis, ‘a short time before his death [Whistler] painted in two sittings a study of a girl’s head, which in mastery of handling is equal to anything he ever produced.' This portrait may have been either Dorothy Seton [YMSM 551] or Dorothy Seton - A Daughter of Eve [YMSM 552]. 2

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 554).

2: Way & Dennis 1903 [more] , p. 4.

Last updated: 19th October 2020 by Margaret