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

 

Portrait of Richard A. Canfield

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. 547), plate 363.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • None.

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. 2, pp. 279, 292.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, p. 423.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 234-35, repr. f.p. 234.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, p. 528.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 336, 415.

Books, General

  • Gardiner, Alexander, Canfield: the True Story of the Greatest Gambler, Garden City, New York, 1930, pp. 127, 229-32, 234-37, photograph of sitter repr. f.p. 222.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Ausstellung Amerikanischer Kunst, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1910 (cat. no. 97) as ‘Portrait des Herrn Richard Canfield’.
  • The Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Museum, Cicnnati, 1922 (cat. no. 22).
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 202) as 'Portrait of Richard A. Canfield' or 'His Reverence'.

SALE:

  • Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 October 1945 (lot 30).
  • Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 April 1961 (lot 65).

Journals 1906-Present

  • MacInnes, Margaret F., [M. F. MacDonald], 'Whistler's Last Years: Spring 1901 - Algiers and Corsica', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 73, 1969, pp. 323-42, at pp. 330-1.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at http://collections.si.edu.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 239).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 19th October 2020 by Margaret