Sketch after "Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder"
James McNeill Whistler
c. 1879
Medium
Brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
18 × 11.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14526
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...