The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Dancer (No. 1) dates from about 1900.

The Dancer (No. 1), The Cleveland Museum of Art

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1624).

Images

Subject

Sitter

The Dancer (No. 1), The Cleveland Museum of Art

Not identified. She is probably the same model as in The Dancer (No.2) m1625. The Cleveland Museum of Art website calls the subject 'The Dancer, No. 1 (Connie Gilchrist)'.

Technique

Technique

The Dancer (No. 1), The Cleveland Museum of Art

The subject and technique of The Dancer (No.1) m1624, The Dancer (No.2) m1625, A girl dancing m1626 and The dancer m1627 are closely connected.

History

Provenance

• 1903: bought on 8 May from Whistler by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), Providence, RI;
• 1914; bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1917: sold to Ralph King (1801-1878), Cleveland, June1917;
• 1924: given on 2 January by Mr and Mrs King to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 160) as ' "The Dancer" (No. 1)'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1624) as 'The Dancer (No. 1)'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Copley Society (ed.), Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels & Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 160) as ' "The Dancer" (No. 1)'.

Books on Whistler

• Tedeschi, Martha, and Britt Salvesen, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, Chicago, 1998 (cat. no. 113).

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler lent by Mr. Richard Canfield Buffalo, 1911 (cat. no. 28).
• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1914 (cat. no. 30).
• Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1939.
• Art and the Stage, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1981).
• The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1988).
• Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1998; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1998-1999.

Websites

• The Cleveland Museum of Art website at clevelandart.org as 'The Dancer, No. 1 (Connie Gilchrist)'.