Museum Exhibition
Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
March 4, 2017 – June 11, 2017
Whistler’s iconic painting returns to Chicago for the first time in over 60 years in a focused installation of 25 objects: paintings, prints, drawings, posters, and other ephemera.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Walter Greaves
James McNeill Whistler
1869
Oil on canvas
83.6 × 58.2 cm (32 7/8 × 22 7/8 in.); Framed: 108.3 × 82.6 × 6.4 cm (42 5/8 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
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Henri Charles Guérard
Whistler's Mother, after Whistler
c. 1883
Etching in brown on cream laid paper
Plate: 14.2 × 16.7 cm (5 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 24.9 × 32.5 cm (9 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Study: Maud Seated
1878
Lithotint with scraping and roulette in black ink on ivory wove proofing paper
Image: 26.5 × 18.3 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 22.4 cm (11 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Early Morning
1878
Lithotint with scraping, on a prepared half-tint ground, in black on cream wove proofing paper
Image: 16.5 × 26.9 cm (6 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.); Sheet: 25.6 × 37.9 cm (10 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne
1878
Lithotint with scraping, on a prepared half-tint ground, in black on ivory Japanese paper
Image: 17.3 × 26.5 cm (6 13/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 19.8 × 28.8 cm (7 13/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Self-Portrait
1871/73
Black chalk with stumping, with touches of white chalk, on brown wove paper laid down on tan board
28.4 × 18.2 cm (11 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Study for "Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth" (recto); Study for "Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland" (verso)
c. 1872
Pastel (recto), and black chalk with touches of pink and white pastel (verso), on brown wove paper
22.9 × 12.3 cm (9 1/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
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