Study of a Girl's Head

Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 - 1903)

Dateca. 1882-1885

MediumOil on wood

DimensionsImage: H 11 x W 7 in. (H 27.9 x W 17.8 cm)
Framed: H 18 5/8 x W 14 3/4 in. (H 47.3 x W 37.5 cm)

Credit LinePurchase 1962 Felix Fuld Bequest; Purchase 1962 Felix Fuld Bequest Fund

Object number62.4

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Title Details

Catalog Card Study of a Girl's Head

Primary Title Study of a Girl

Remarks frame: l.c. label

Published Title Study, Head of a Girl

Remarks 1981 Newark Museum Catalogue

Inscriptionsback of frame: u.r. graphite "#20725 / 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 "Marks and Labels/Stampsframe: l.c. label "STUDY OF A GIRL / J. McN. WHISTLER"; verso: u.c. label "THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES / ABERYSTWYTH / TITLE OF PICTURE Study of a Girl's Head / ARTIST Whistler / LENT BY The Misses Davies, / Gregynog. / EXHIBITED 1951(58)"; l.c. "J.M. WHISTLER. / 'STUDY OF A GIRL'S HEAD' / MARGARET S. DAVIES. / GREGYNOG COLLECTION."; back of frame: u.l. label "The University of Michigan / Museum of Art / Ann Arbor, IM 48109"; u.r. label "7/26/62 / Vose Galleri-es / P.O. / T.R. 152"; handwritten stickers "5"; "34"ProvenanceDisappeared from Whistler's studio; J.J. Cowan, Edinburgh, Scotland; Margaret S. Davies, Newton, Montgomeryshire, 1951; sold by Davies at Sotheby's London, England, May 4, 1960; to Julius Weitzner, London, England; to Stephen Juvelis, Marblehead, Mass.; to Vose Galleries, Boston, Mass.Exhibition HistoryThe Ballantine House, Billiard Room, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey (November 17, 2023 - ongoing)
"Newark Stories: Four Newarkers Who Made a Difference ", Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (June 18, 2016 - January 8, 2017).
"Whistler: The Later Years," University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (July 1978)
National Library of Wales, Aberstwyth, from Margaret S. Davies collection, (1951)

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