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

 

Portrait of E. G. Kennedy (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. 404), plate 274, as 'Portrait of E. G. Kennedy (2)'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Loan Exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopædic Hospital, National Academy of Design, New York, 1895 (cat. no. 329) as 'Portrait Study'.
  • 66th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1896 (cat. no. 336) as 'Portrait Study'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 cat. no. (80) as 'Portrait of Man'.
  • 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. 83) as 'Portrait of E. G. Kennedy, Esq.'

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. 169 (cat. no. 182) 'Portrait of Man'.
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 86, repr. p. 87.
  • Lane, James W., Whistler, (American Artists Series), New York, 1942, repr. p. 100.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 172.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 6th (revised) edition, Philadelphia and London, 1919, pp. 319, 334-35, 432, repr. f.p. 417.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 174 (cat. no. 182) as 'Portrait of E. G. Kennedy'..

Books, General

  • Morris, Harrison S., Confessions in Art, New York, 1930, p. 76.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Gardner, Albert TenEyck, and Stuart P. Feld, American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, vol. 2, pp. 391-393.
  • Luhrs, Kathleen, ‎John Caldwell, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1980, p. 91.
  • Spassky, Natalie, with Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh, American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845, New York, 1985, pp. 392-94.

EXHIBITIONS:

  • White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 20).
  • On loan, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1954-1956 (no catalogue).
  • Fourteen American Masters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1958-1959 (no catalogue).
  • Drawings, Watercolors, Prints and Paintings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972 (no catalogue).
  • Drawings, Watercolors, Prints and Paintings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Albany Institute of History and Art, 1974 (no catalogue).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Burroughs, Bryson, 'Principal Accessions', Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 5, February 1910, pp. 45-49, at pp. 46-47, repr p. 46.
  • Cortissoz, Royal, Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 36, December 1932, p. 801; reprinting Cortissoz, Royal, New York Herald Tribune, 11 October 1932, p. 16.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • Cortissoz, Royal, New York Herald Tribune, 11 October 1932, p. 16.
  • Pennell, E. R., Baltimore Sun, 8 July 1934.

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website at http://www.metmuseum.org.

Unpublished

  • None.

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 4th December 2020 by Margaret