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Title Symphony in White, No. 1 The White Girl Creator James McNeill Whistler Date Created 1861-1863, 1872 Physical Dimensions overall 213 x 107.9 cm (83 7/8 x 42 1/2 in.) framed 24 4.2 x 136.5 x 8.3 cm (96 1/8 x 53 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.) Provenance Sold 1866 by the artist to his half-brother, George W. Whistler [d. 1869], London, but retained possession; bequeathed to his wife, Mrs. George W. Whistler [d. 1875]; sent 1875 by the artist to her son, Thomas Delano Whistler, Baltimore, Maryland; sold 28 February 1896 for Thomas D. Whistler by (Boussod Valladon & Cie, New York) to Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, Connecticut; sold 1897 to his father, John Howard Whittemore [d. 1910], Naugatuck, Connecticut; bequeathed to the J.H. Whittemore Company, Naugatuck, Connecticut, with life interest to John Howard Whittemore's daughter, Miss Gertrude B. Whittemore [d. 1941], Naugatuck, Connecticut;[1] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret F. MacDonald, and Robin Spencer, with the assistance of Hamish Miles, _The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler_, New Haven, 1980 18, lists the last owners of the painting as Harris Whittemore's son and daughter, Harris Whittemore, Jr., and Mrs. Charles S. Upson. They were officers of the J. H. Whittemore Company (Harris Whittemore, Jr., was President), the actual owner of the painting. Rights CC0 Medium oil on canvas Show more