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

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YMSM 185
Arrangement in White and Black

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.78a-b
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 191.4 x 90.9 cm (75 3/8 x 35 3/4" )
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Portrait Whistler with incised basket weave, American, ca 1910

Arrangement in White and Black

Arrangement in White and Black is a portrait of Maud Franklin (1857-ca 1941), fashionably dressed in a costume that can be dated between 1876 and 1878. 1

Arrangement in White and Black, Freer Gallery of Art
Arrangement in White and Black, Freer Gallery of Art

It was first exhibited in II Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1878 (cat. no. 55) as 'Arrangement in White and Black'.

Notes:

1: MacDonald 2003 [more] , p. 135, fig. 126. See also YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 184).

Last updated: 29th December 2020 by Margaret