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

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M.1564
A club on a cushion

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.286
Medium: graphite pencil, pen, black ink and white opaque paint
Support: cream wove card
Size: 4 11/16 x 6 1/4" (119 x 159 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'size across/ from tassel to tassel -'; collector's mark of 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster); v.: in unknown hands '33.286 / 12 / a44123'

A club on a cushion

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1564) as 'A club on a cushion'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. xxiii.

Websites

  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 41).
  • 'Cats. 40–47 Butterflies and Club: Tombstone,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020) URL (cat. no. 41) as 'A Club in a Cushion'.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret