- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.167
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- Violet and Blue: The Red Feather
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Girl with a Red Feather
Former Title: Chelsea Girl - Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1896-1900
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230329
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.8 x 31 cm (20 x 12 3/16 in.)
framed: 73.7 x 53.7 x 7 cm (29 x 21 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: verso, upper left of frame, printed text: THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES / BROOLYN MUSEUM / Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue / Brooklyn, N. Y. / Artist [typewritten:] Whistler [handwritten, graphite:] W9421 / Title [typewritten:] Chelsea [label is cutoff]
- inscription: verso, upper left of frame, black ink: 131
- Provenance
- The artist, sold; to Charles Hessele, Paris, c. 1901. James Staats Forbes, before 1905. Mrs. Romaine Brooks, Capri and Paris. George Bernheim, Paris. Kelekian Collection, New York, by 1921. [American Art Association, January 20-31, 1923], sold; to [Kennedy & Co., New York]. Alfred Ramage, Oil City, PA. [Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, March 28, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.167
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late J. McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, England, 1905), p. 75, no. 4, reproduced opposite p. 32
Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 368
Bernhard Sickert, Whistler, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1908), no. 161
Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, J. B. Lippincott/W. Heinemann (Philadelphia, PA and London, England, 1911), reproduced opposite p. 392
Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I: no. 503, p. 215; vol. II: reproduced in b/w pl 323
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 434-35, cat. no. 461, reproduced in color, p. 461
- Exhibition History
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Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler: First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, London, 02/22/1905 - 04/15/1905
Unidentified Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 1921, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 01/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
Unidentified Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1922, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 01/01/1922 - 12/31/1922
- Related Works
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