The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0711
Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist'
Date
Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist' dates from 1879.
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 711).
Images
Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist', whereabouts unknown
Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist', Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject
Sitter
Connie Gilchrist (1864-1946).
Technique
Composition
Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The sketch of Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist y190 has not been located. It was removed from an album owned by Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), who wrote under neath it 'Original Sketch for "Portrait of Miss Connie Gilchrist" "The Gold Girl: a harmony in yellow and gold'.
History
Provenance
- ca 1879: acquired by Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), London, and placed in an album;
- After 1884: the album was acquired by Cornelius Cox (1835-1889) and returned to Whistler, who removed some letters and drawings.
Cornelius Cox was the father of Amy Ellen Cox, Mrs T. R. Way (1865-1949), wife of Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913). Way's father, Thomas Way (1837-1915), instructed Whistler in the art of lithography in the late 1870s and printed his lithographs.It was on the Ways' advice that the album was shown to Whistler.
Exhibitions
It was not exhibited.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 711) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist' ".
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 190).