The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0367
Tillie

Tillie

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1929.83
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 15/16 x 7 15/16" (303 x 201 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Date

Tillie dates from 1870/1873.

TillieFogg Art Museum
TillieFogg Art Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 367).

Images

TillieFogg Art Museum
TillieFogg Art Museum

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

Subject

Sitter

TillieFogg Art Museum
TillieFogg Art Museum

A photograph in the E. R. & J. Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, identified the model as 'Tillie'.

Matilda Maria Gilchrist née Potter (1826-1886) posed for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and probably for the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088.

Technique

Composition

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

The central figure, though facing left instead of right, may be study for the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088.

History

Provenance

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 367).

Exhibitions

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues 1855-1905

Books, General

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