Alice Butt
James McNeill Whistler
c. 1895
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 51.7 x 38.1 cm (20 3/8 x 15 in.) framed: 86.4 x 73 x 8.9 cm (34 x 28 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Curt H. Reisinger
Accession Number
1948.16.2
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 1834–1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...