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

 

The Little Faustina

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. 510), plate 325, as 'The Little Faustina'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 43) as 'The Little Faustina'.

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. 35 (cat. no. 43).
  • Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler, Philadelphia and London, 1903, pp. 273-74.

Books, General

  • Kelly, Franklin, American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, vol. 2, 1998, p. 255.
  • Kelley, William Valentine, With the Children in Lewis Carroll's Company, New York and London, 1917, p. 43.
  • Sweeney, J. Gray, American Painting, Muskegon Museum of Art, 1980, p. 22.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 15 (09.113).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 149, 295, 307, pl. 57.

EXHIBITION:

  • Paintings in oil and pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 44).
  • Inaugural Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, 1912 (cat. no. 105).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Meyer, Annie Nathan, 'Whistler Exhibition', Harper's Weekly, vol. 54, part 1, 1909, p. 18.
  • Kurtz, Charles M., Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton, and William Mathews Hekking, 'The Whistler Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, vol. 5-10, 1910, p. 1.
  • Kathleen Pyne, 'Whistler and the Politics of the Urban Picturesque', American Art, vol. 8, no. 3/4, Summer - Autumn, 1994, pp. 60-77, at pp. 74-75 (fig. 17; the titles given to figs. 16 and 17 are reversed, with fig. 17 incorrectly named 'The Little Red Glove').

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1909.113a-b.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 293).

Other

  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret