Morning Glories
date: label: Date
content: 1871-1873
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Label
content: While working to improve his facility with drawing and composition, Whistler made studies of classically draped models in Japanese attitudes, posing in front of a bamboo railing he designed especially for this purpose. The chalk drawings are studies in line, as the Six Projects (see F1902.138, F1903.175--F1903.179) are studies in color, for elaborate figure paintings Whistler was never able to complete, though he would use some of the themes in pastel drawings such as Morning Glories and Annabel Lee (F1905.129), which was completed years later. Whistler signed the drawings around 1874, placing his butterfly emblem beside each figure as though it were a Japanese artist’s seal.
label: Provenance
content: To 1903
label: Provenance
content: Sir William Burrell (1861-1958), Glasgow, Scotland, to 1903 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1903 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Sir William Burrell in 1903 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 25, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: The Lost Symphony: Whistler & the Perfection of Art (January 16 to May 30, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinamania (2010) (August 7, 2010 to August 7, 2011)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler's Nudes (April 21, 2002 to January 5, 2003)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Artist (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler (May 1905)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: water
label: Topic
content: river
label: Topic
content: woman
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content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: balcony
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1903.147a-c
objectType: label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Drawing; chalk and pastel on brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 26.1 x 16.2 cm (10 1/4 x 6 3/8 in)