A Club on a Cushion

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Prints and Drawings

1898/99

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: A Club on a Cushion
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1898–1899
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint, on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, right, in black-brown ink: "[length notation] size across / from tassel to tassel"; inscribed verso, bottom center, in graphite: "12"
Dimensions: 12 × 16 cm (4 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Kate L. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.286
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James McNeill Whistler, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict (Paris and New York, 1899), p. xxiii (ill.).
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 563, no. 1564 (ill.).

Chicago, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, “Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters,” March 7-21, 1921, p. 5, cat. 47.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Portraits of Whistler and Some Original Drawings by Whistler, Loaned by Walter S. Brewster,” January 19-February 7, 1923, cat. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10.

Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, April 16, 1920 [invoice; stamp (Lugt 2651 a-b), recto, lower left, in blue]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.

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