Object details
Accession number
2.1.o.52
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
The Sisters
Creation Date
1894
State
I/II
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed in pencil (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
Dimensions
18.5 x 23 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Display Media
Lithograph printed on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Thomas Robert Way. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue (London, 1896), p. 27, no. 71.
Thomas Robert Way. Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist (London, 1912), p. 110.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs by Whistler from the Collection of Thomas R. Way. Exh. cat. (New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1914), p. 14, no. 44.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 130.
Mervyn Levy (ed.). Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1975), nos. 105-106.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 80, ill.
Susan Hobbs and Nesta R. Spink. Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1982), pp. 22, 71, no. 72.
Martha Tedeschi (ed.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1998), no. 109.
Martha Tedeschi and Britt Salvesen. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1999), pp. 85, 87, 91, fig. 114, no. 132.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. Whistler, Women & Fashion. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2003), pp. 203-204 fig. 203.
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