Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, 1864, Philadelphia Museum of Art: John G .Johnson Collection, 1917.

Many of James McNeill Whistler’s works feature the red-haired figure of Joanna Hiffernan. Her close professional and personal relationship with the artist lasted for two decades, yet little about her role or influence in his life has been explored Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan looks at the role Joanna played in the artist’s career and how Whistler’s revolutionary paintings featuring Hiffernan went on to influence later artists from the Pre-Raphaelites to Klimt.

This exhibition is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.