The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist' dates from 1878.

Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist', Blackburn 1878

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 709).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist', Blackburn 1878

Connie Gilchrist (1864-1946).

Technique

Composition

Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist', Blackburn 1878

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

Whistler's sketch of Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist y190 has not been located, but was the basis for the reproduction by Blackburn. ¹

History

Provenance

• 1879: drawn for reproduction by Henry Blackburn (1830-1897).

It is not known if Blackburn kept the drawing.

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. 709) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – 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).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Blackburn, Henry, Grosvenor Notes, London, 1878, drawing repr.