Gaiety Stage Door / James McNeill Whistler

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Accession Number
1954/1.419
Title
Gaiety Stage Door
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
1834-1903
Object Creation Date
1879
Inscription
On the stone, left center: Butterfly monogram Signed, in pencil, on mount, l.l.: Whistler, and Butterfly monogram
Dimensions
38 cm x 54.9 cm (14 15/16 in. x 21 5/8 in.)
Century
19th century
Physical Description
A building with an arched doorway, windows at the center right, and the beginning of a flight of stairs on the right acts as architectural foils for the figures and a cart and horse (hansom cab?) arrayed in front of the building or grouped in the dark entryway.
Subject Matter
The Way's printing offices on Wellington Street faced the back of the Gaiety Theatre and Whistler several times drew the stage door of the theatre from the Way's establishment. In this way, technical innovations introduced by the Ways--such as the use of transfer paper--could be experimented with immediately by Whistler.
"Gaiety Stage Door" was published in the portfolio "Notes" in 1887.
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1175 x 847
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Record
1954/1.419
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"Gaiety Stage Door; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.419/1954_1.419.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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