Portrait of James NcNeill Whistler

Charles Abel Corwin|James McNeill Whistler

1880 · Monotype · Drawings and Prints

Corwin created this monotype portrait of Whistler in Venice. The young painter belonged to the "Duvenck boys" (named after their leader Frank Duveneck), a group based in Mumich who traveled to Italy in the summers (others were John White Alexander, Otto Henry Bacher, Robert Frederick Blum, George Edward Hopkins, Harper Pennington, Julius Rolshoven and Theodore M. Wendel). In 1789-80, Corwin met Whistler in Venice. The older artist happily accepted the group's admiration, visted them in their rooms in the Casa Jankowitz on the Riva San Biagio in Castello, sketched out the windows and discussed his work.

Artist

Charles Abel Corwin|James McNeill Whistler

Date

1880

Medium

Monotype

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960