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

 

Venus

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 357) as 'Venus'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 92).

Books on Whistler

  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 100, fig. 2.18, 61.4.
  • Spencer, Robin, The Aesthetic Movement, London and New York, 1972, p. 39.

Books, General

  • Staley, Allen, The New Painting of the 1860s, London and New Haven, 2011, p. 178, fig. 159.
  • Williams, Mary Frances, Catalogue of the Collection of American Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Charlottesville, 1977, p. 169.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 244, pl. 216.

EXHIBITION:

  • Robertson, Pamela, Beauty and the Butterfly: Whistler's Depictions of Women, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 2003, p. 19, fig. 6 (not exhibited).
  • Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015, p. 9, fig. 2 (not exhibited).

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.66a-b.

Last updated: 3rd June 2021 by Margaret