Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
20 documented works
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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James McNeill Whistler
Old Battersea Bridge
1879
Etching and drypoint, with foul biting, in brown on cream laid paper
Plate: 20.2 × 29.3 cm (8 × 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 20.6 × 29.3 cm (8 1/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne, from Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the "First Venice Set")
1879–80
Etching and drypoint in brown on cream laid paper
Image, trimmed within platemark: 20.1 × 29.7 cm (7 15/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 20.4 × 29.7 cm (8 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
The Music Room
1859
Etching, with selective wiping of plate tone, in black on off-white wove paper
Image/plate: 14.4 × 21.4 cm (5 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20.4 × 33.6 cm (8 1/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Reading by Lamplight
1859
Etching and drypoint, with foul biting, in black on cream laid paper
Plate: 16 × 11.9 cm (6 5/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 23.2 × 16.8 cm (9 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Black Lion Wharf, from A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (the "Thames Set")
1859, published 1871
Etching with foul biting in black on off-white laid paper
Plate: 15.1 × 22.7 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 33.3 cm (8 9/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Finette
1859
Etching and drypoint in black on ivory Japanese paper
Plate: 29 × 20.1 cm (11 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 37 × 26.4 cm (14 5/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
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Thomas Robert Way
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, after Whistler
1892
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)
Image: 15.1 × 16.8 cm (6 × 6 5/8 in.); Primary support: 18.9 × 20.9 cm (7 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 28.3 × 38.2 cm (11 3/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
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Richard Josey
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother
1879
Mezzotint in black on cream China paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)
Image: 31.5 × 35.2 cm (12 7/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Plate: 43.8 × 44.1 cm (17 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.); Primary support: 42.4 × 42.7 cm (16 3/4 × 16 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 53 × 63.8 cm (20 7/8 × 25 1/8 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy
1894
Oil on canvas
210.7 × 93.3 cm (82 15/16 × 36 3/4 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Study for "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle"
1872–73
Oil on canvas
28.6 × 21 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Portrait of Dr. William McNeill Whistler
1871–73
Oil on panel
43.7 × 34.8 cm (17 3/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
1872
Oil on canvas
51 × 76.7 cm (20 1/16 × 30 3/16 in.)
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James McNeill Whistler
The Artist in His Studio
1865–66
Oil on paper mounted on panel
Board: 62 × 46.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Overall: 63 × 47.3 cm (24 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.)
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