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Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)LinkedCulture matchlcp-0d1a42681515

Date: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: Paris
Department: Arts of the Americas
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 8958

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James McNeill Whistler created thinly painted compositions with flat, nearly abstract passages, purposefully subtle in character. He called works such as this one an “arrangement,” emphasizing formal elements rather than subject matter. The painting still serves as a portrait—it was commissioned by Chicago attorney Arthur Jerome Eddy, a collector and advocate of modern art. After seeing Whistler’s work at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in the city, Eddy traveled to the artist’s studio in Paris expressly to sit for this portrait. The two became lasting friends, and Eddy published a book on Whistler after the artist’s death in 1903.

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Credit line: Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
Provenance: Commissioned by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920), Chicago, 1894; by descent to his wife, Lucy “Lulu” Crapo Orrell Eddy (1863–1931), and son, Jerome Orrell Eddy (1891–1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

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Object type: AAT300033618

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