Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Albert Eugene Gallatin

Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1882
Place of birth: Villanova, PA
Date of death: 1952
Place of death: New York, NY
Category: collector

Identity:

Albert Eugene Gallatin was an artist, author and pioneer collector of abstract art.

Life:

He wrote numerous works on Whistler including: Gallatin, Albert Eugene, 'J. A. McN. Whistler: Notes Towards a Bibliography', The Literary Collector, vol. 1, nos. 3 and 5, and vol. 2, nos. 1 and 4, December 1900, February, April, and July 1901, pp. 13-15, 20-21, 23-24 and 111-112 ; Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Whistler's Art Dicta and Other Essays, Boston, 1904 ; Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Whistler, Notes and Footnotes, and other Memoranda, New York and London, 1907 ; Gallatin, Albert Eugene, The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler: An Iconography, London, New York and Toronto, 1913 ; Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Portraits of Whistler: A Critical Study and an Iconography, New York and London, 1918 .

Bibliography:

Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986 .