Art, literature & history
The Strong Arm
1895
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 19.7 × 15.9 cm (7 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 28.3 × 22.7 cm (11 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8747
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Strong Arm. James McNeill Whistler; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_McNeill_Whistler,_The_Strong_Arm,_1895,_NGA_11244.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Strong Arm — James McNeill Whistler. 1895.
Medium: lithograph in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 19.7 × 15.9 cm (7 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 28.3 × 22.7 cm (11 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8747. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.