Reading

James McNeill Whistler

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a charcoal sketch of a woman sitting and reading. The woman has dark hair and wears a hat atop her head. She is leaning forward to the right, her head slightly bowed in concentration. In her left hand she holds a rectangular object. There is a dark area behind her and a signature in the bottom right. The background of the image features short diagonal and horizontal lines, with the diagonal emanating from behind the woman. The background of the sketch itself is light beige. A small insignia is present on a white border at the bottom edge.