The Winged Hat
Medium
Transfer lithograph; second state of two (Chicago); printed in black ink on ivory smooth wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (28.6 x 22.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985
Accession Number
1985.1160.76A
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About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler|Carl Hentschel · 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...