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

 

The Cemetery

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 738) as 'The Cemetery'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 36) 'The Cemetery'.
  • Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 171) and 1904 (cat. no. 22) as 'The Cemetery, Venice'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 155).

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Art. Venice Pastels', Observer, London, 6 February 1881.
  • St James's Gazette, London, 9 February 1881.
  • Wedmore, Frederick, 'Fine Art: Mr Whistler's Pastels', The Academy, vol. 29, 19 February 1881, p. 142
  • Fanfulla, 26 February 1881.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Pastels', Athenaeum, 5 February 1881, p. 206.
  • Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.
  • Anon., 'London Exhibitions. A Group of Drawings by Whistler', Art Journal, February 1904, pp. 96-98, at p. 97.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 173-174, 191, repr. pl. 225, view repr. pl. 226.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 25, 42, 44, 55, 103, repr. pl. 43, view repr. pl. 44.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • An Illustrated Catalogue of the Works of Art in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, vol. 4, The Frick Collection, New York, 1957, vol. 4, p. 47.
  • The Frick Collection: Drawings, Prints & Later Acquisitions, vol. 9, New York, 2003.

Websites

  • The Frick Collection website at https://collections.frick.org/objects/286/the-cemetery-venice.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret