About This Artwork

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy, 1894

Oil on canvas
209.9 x 92.4 cm (82 5/8 x 36 3/8 in.)
Signed, middle right: butterfly monogram

Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection, 1931.501

Unknown 41.

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Catalogue of the Seventy Third Annual Exhibition," January 25-March 5, 1904, cat. 31.

Boston, Copley Hall, "Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Drawings. Memorial Exhibition of the works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston," February 1904, cat. 18.

The Arts Club of Chicago, "Loan Portrait Exhibition," December 7-21, 1918, cat. 36.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy," September 19-October 22, 1922, cat. 66.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt," January 14-February 25, 1954, cat. 119; traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 25-May 23, 1954.

Art Institute of Chicago, "James McNeill Whistler," , January 13-February 25, 1968, cat. 41; traveled to Utica, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, March 17-April 28, 1968.

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, "After Whistler", November 15, 2003-February 8, 2004; traveled to Detroit Institute of Art, March 6-May 30, 2004 (Detroit only).

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 302-304, no. 154.




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