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Title: Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl—Connie Gilchrist. Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London) Date: ca. 1876–77. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 85 3/4 x 43 1/8 in. (217.8 x 109.5 cm) Credit Line: Gift of George A. Hearn, 1911. Accession Number: 11.32
Rose Constance Gilchrist (July 17, 1895 – March 3, 1985) [1] was an American stage, film, and television actress. Among her screen credits are roles in the Hollywood productions Cry 'Havoc' (1943), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Little Women (1949), Tripoli (1950), Houdini (1953), Some Came Running (1958), and Auntie Mame (1958).
Whistler captured Gilchrist's jumping rope routine in his etching, Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl, and posed her for The Blue Girl, while other members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, such as William Powell Frith, often placed her in their works.
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Dec 3, 2014 · Whistler captured Gilchrist’s jumping rope routine in his etching, Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl, and posed her for The Blue Girl, while other members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, such as Frith, often placed her in their works as well.
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Dec 2, 2018 · Connie Gilchrist: the forgotten story of a Victorian child star uncovered | Art | The Guardian. The Music Lesson by Frederic Leighton, 1877. The young girl being taught to play the saz (a...
Dec 14, 2018 · Long before Shirley Temple and her curls paved the way for child stars to storm the silver screen, a young girl named Connie Gilchrist held all of Victorian London in thrall, entrancing...
