Artist Monograph

James McNeill Whistler, American

American, 1834–1903

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Medium Breakdown

Medium Works at MoMA Share
Lithography 2 50%
Etching 2 50%

Production by Decade

2
1850s
1
1870s
1
1890s

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquiredWorks
19542
19641
19951

Highlighted Works

  1. 1878 Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea) Lithotint with scraping on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in soft gray-black ink on pale blue laid chine mounted on ivory wove plate paper; second state of two (Chicago)
  2. 1879–80 The Doorway Etching, drypoint and roulette, printed in brownish-black ink on ivory laid paper; fourteenth state of twenty (Glasgow)
  3. ca. 1880 Note in Pink and Brown Charcoal and pastel on dark brown wove paper
  4. ca. 1870–80 Cremorne Gardens, No. 2 Oil on canvas
  5. 1883 Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret Oil on canvas
  6. ca. 1883 Lady in Gray Watercolor and gouache on dark brown wove paper
  7. ca. 1883–84 The Yellow Room Watercolor and gouache on paperboard

Recurring Subjects & Themes

  • Men · 116
  • Women · 111
  • Boats · 74
  • Buildings · 62
  • Human Figures · 46
  • Venice · 45
  • Rivers · 29
  • Girls · 18
  • Houses · 18
  • Portraits · 17
  • Bridges · 15
  • London · 15
  • Streets · 14
  • Smoking · 10
  • Canals · 10
  • Ships · 9
  • Reading · 8
  • Heads · 8
  • Trees · 8
  • Animals · 7

Met Open Access Records

503 CC0 records at The Met.

CultureCountryDepartmentRecords
AmericanThe American Wing95

American Contemporaries

  1. 16315 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  2. 3358 Louise Bourgeois
  3. 2199 Ellsworth Kelly
  4. 1338 Lee Friedlander
  5. 932 George Maciunas