The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Connie Gilchrist probably dates from 1879, and was signed in 1891.

Connie Gilchrist, Baltimore Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 712).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Connie Gilchrist, Baltimore Museum of Art

Connie Gilchrist (1864-1946).

Technique

Composition

Connie Gilchrist, Baltimore Museum of Art

Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist, Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a sketch of Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist y190. The Pennells wrote that 'in friends' houses, he would make little sketches of pictures he was working on, and one evening he left with Mr. Cole [a sketch] ... of the Connie Gilchrist.' ¹

Conservation History

Connie Gilchrist m0712 appears to be the left half of a sheet of writing paper, and Study of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder' m0713, the right half.

History

Provenance

• ca 1879: probably given by Whistler to Alan Summerly Cole (1846-1934), London;
• 1891: on 9 June Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York dealer, brought 11 drawings, including 'Girl with skipping rope' to Paris for Whistler to sign; ²
• Date unknown: acquired by George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909), Baltimore;
• 1909: bequeathed to Baltimore Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 712) as '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).

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 202.