Description:
young woman with red hair, loose robe, head down, serious expression with red fan in her proper left hand
Label Text:
From the 1870s until his death in 1903, James McNeill Whistler focused mainly on painting portraits. In Girl with a Fan, Whistler calls upon his characteristic loosely-painted (painterly) style to depict a young woman holding a red fan in her left hand. The subject of the portrait is an unknown young woman, wearing a loose-fitting brown dress over a white blouse. The painting is made up mainly of tones, such as browns and off-whites, which allow the red of the fan and the subject’s face and hair to pop. This focus on a single color or range of colors in a particular painting is a hallmark of Whistler’s pictures, as found in his most renowned works such as Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (otherwise known as “Whistler’s Mother”).
Tags:
women; portraits; costume Link to share this object record:
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