Gaiety Stage Door / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.419
- Title
- Gaiety Stage Door
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Object Creation Date
- 1879
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- 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.
- Primary Keywords
- animals
- buildings
- cart
- carts
- doorways
- doorways and doorway components
- stair
- steps
- window
- windows
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- architectural elements
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- circulation elements
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- objects
- objects we use
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- service and utility vehicles
- stair components
- stairs and stair components
- steps and step components
- the natural world
- transportation
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- windows and window components
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1175 x 847
- File Size
- 72 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.419
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.419/1954_1.419.jpg
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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 June 05, 2024.