id: 121261 accession number: 1942.1133 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1133 updated: 2022-09-22 09:31:51.020000 The Violin Player, c. 1894. James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903). Oil on canvas; unframed: 79 x 53.3 cm (31 1/8 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Howard P. Eells in memory of her husband Howard Parmelee Eells 1942.1133 title: The Violin Player title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1894 creation date earliest: 1889 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Howard P. Eells in memory of her husband Howard Parmelee Eells copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 79 x 53.3 cm (31 1/8 x 21 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right center with butterfly. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00 Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * London, New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler (22 February - 15 April 1905), cat. no. 34, p. 88; lent by Monsieur Z; exh. sponsored by the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art (1918, 1932).
"American Paintings Owned in Cleveland," Cleveland Museum of Art, July 3--September 13, 1920
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Work of James McNeill Whistler (1933).
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art (1934-36).
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition (26 June - 4 October 1936), no. 376.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting from 1860 Until Today (23 June - 4 October 1937), no. 209.
New York, William Macbeth, Inc., Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Whistler (14 April - 10 May 1947), cat. no. 24.
New London, CT, Lyman Allyn Museum, Stonington Tercentennial Celebration (1 May - 13 June 1949), cat. no. 2.
Muskegan, MI, Hackley Art Gallery, Music in Art (3 October - 20 November 1949).
Utica, NY, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Expatriates Whistler, Cassatt, and Sargent (4 January - 25 January 1953).
Athens, OH, Ohio University, American Painting 1804-1954 (1 May - 15 June 1954) no. 14, pl. 14.
Akron, OH, The Akron Art Institute, Survey of 19th Century American Paintings (2 November - 15 December 1959). --- PROVENANCE van Wisselingh (dealer, London and The Hague), 1903); (to Macbeth Galleries, New York, 20 February 1908); (to "Spiri," Amsterdam, 1 May 1908); D. Heinemann, Munich, 1911; Howard P. Eells, Cleveland (acquired from Heinemann in 1912) Bequeathed to Mrs. Howard P. Eells (Maud), 11 February 1919; Lent to Cleveland Museum of Art at various times up to 1937; Given to Cleveland Museum of Art 31 December 1942. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Recent Changes in the Painting Galleries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 2/3 (1918): 22-27. page number: Mentioned: p. 26 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136174 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1133/1942.1133_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1133/1942.1133_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1133/1942.1133_full.tif