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

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Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 486), plate 356, as 'Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 58) as 'Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders', de luxe edition, repr. f.p. 76.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 217 (cat. no. 410).

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Clarke, Jay, and Sarah Kelly Oehler (eds), Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2020.

EXHIBITION:

  • Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr and Mrs Walter S. Brewster at their residence, 2704 Lake View Avenue, January 1933 (cat. no. 38).
  • Summer Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1939 (cat. no. 5).
  • Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (cat. no. 47).

Journals 1906-Present

  • 'Walter S. Brewster', The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 15 November 1954, p. 77.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • 'Annie Coburn's Will bequeathed wealth of art', Chicago Tribune, Chicago, 29 June 1932.

Websites

  • Art Institute of Chicago website at http://www.artic.edu (acc. 2019).
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website.
  • Strother, Stephanie L., 'Cat. 36 Study of a Girl’s Head and Shoulders, 1896/97: Curatorial Entry,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.
  • Muir, Kimberley, 'Cat. 36 Study of a Girl’s Head and Shoulders, 1896/97: Technical Summary,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 245).
  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

Other

  • Brandau, Robert (ed.), De Meyer, New York, 1976, photograph of Baroness de Meyer repr. p. 15.

Last updated: 4th December 2020 by Margaret