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

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M.1346
Loie Fuller dancing

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46173
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 8 1/4 x 12 9/16" (209 x 319 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Loie Fuller dancing

Loie Fuller dancing probably dates from November or December 1892. At that time Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) asked Whistler to show her 'the whirling tracings of Loie Fuller that you pencilled.' 1

Loie Fuller dancing, The Hunterian
Loie Fuller dancing, The Hunterian

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1346).

Notes:

1: GUW #01641.

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret