Study for "The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland"
James McNeill Whistler
c. 1879
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown ink, on cream pseudo-laid paper tipped onto cream wove paper
Dimensions
17.9 × 11.2 cm (7 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112165
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...