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

 

Portrait of Whistler

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1533) as 'Portrait of Whistler'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

  • 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. 183) as 'James McNeill Whistler'.
  • 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. 181) as 'Portrait of Whistler'.

SALE:

  • Drouot, Paris, 25 November 1903 (lot 6, repr.) as 'Portrait de Whistler'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Whistler Sale in Paris', The Athenaeum, no. 3971, 5 December 1903, p. 761.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, repr. f.p. 202.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 40, 243-44, repr. f.p. 40 as 'Sketch from the Portrait in the 1900 Paris Exhibition'.

Books, General

  • Virga, Vincent, and curators of the Library of Congress; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley, Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States, New York, 1997.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari, Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004, GUW #09607.
  • Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret