The Manager's Window, Gaiety Theatre

Prints and Drawings

1896

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

The original Gaiety Theatre was located on the Strand, with a stage entrance on Wellington Street, across the road from the offices of Whistler’s London printers, the Ways. The artist made three lithographs of the back of the theater, drawn from the Ways’ windows. He attended performances there as well, making two paintings of a member of the dancing troupe, “Gaiety Girl” Connie Gilchrist, whom he posed in his studio skipping rope in a replication of her performances on stage.

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: The Manager's Window, Gaiety Theatre
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.: Made 1896
Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 17.3 × 13.6 cm (6 13/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Sheet: 25 × 19.3 cm (9 7/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Crown Family in honor of James N. Wood
Reference Number: 2004.649
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Way 114

Levy 162

Chicago 150 I/I

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