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

 

La Mère Gérard (2)

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. 27), plate 10, as 'La Mère Gérard (2)'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Exposition des œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 2) as 'La mère Gérard'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 73.

Books, General

  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, pp. 195-96.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Dale, Maud (preface), Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929 (cat. no. 48)
  • McIntyre, Robert G., Whistler: Loan Exhibition, New York, Macbeth Gallery, 1947 (cat. no. 32) as 'La Mere Gerard'.
  • Sobieski, Phyllis Knapp, To Draw from Nature: The Dr and Mrs Albert J. Miller, Jr. Collection, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, 1995, pp. 143-46, repr. frontispiece.
  • Americans Abroad, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, 1998.

SALE:

  • W. A. Clark sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 January 1926 (lot 59) 'La Mère Gérard'.
  • Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 May 1946 (lot 100), repr.
  • Christie's, New York, 27 September 1990 (lot 26).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Benson, E. M., 'Problems of Portraiture', Magazine of Art, Washington DC, vol. 30, 1937, supplement.
  • Sickert, Walter Richard, ‘Where Paul and I differ’, Art News, no. 14, 10 February 1910, p. 113.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • Woods, Jean, 'Kaleidoscope: Whistler: Versatile Expatriate', The Herald Mail, Hagerstown, MD, 20 September 1990.
  • Rasmussen, Fred, 'Albert Miller Jr., 82, art benefactor', Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, 16 September 1995, online at http://articles.baltimoresun.com.

Websites

  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts website at http://wcmfa.org/collections/ (forthcoming).

Unpublished

  • None.

Other

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 18) 'La Mère Gérard'.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret