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

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Dancing girl, on a fan

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1423) as 'Dancing girl, on a fan'.

Books on Whistler

  • Calvert, Robyne Erica, 'An Artistic Fan in Victorian Society', in Hermens, Erma and Joanna Meacock and Grischka Petri (eds), Connecting Whistler. Essays in Honour of Margaret F. MacDonald , pp. 35-41, online at https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_182035_en.pdf.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, repr. fig. 139.1-3.
  • Calloway, Stephen, and Lynn Federle Orr, with Esmé Whittaker, Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2011-2012, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, 2012, repr., as 'The Fan of Lady X'.

SALE:

  • Sotheby's, London, 4 May 1910 (lot 195) as 'A Uniquely Decorated Fan'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Sketch, vol. 72, no. 943, 22 February 1911, repr. p. 218.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • New York Sun, New York, 2 May 1910.
  • Daily Telegraph, London, 4 May 1910.

Websites

  • Neal, Alice, 'The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900 beautifies Victoria & Albert Museum', 2011, Culture24 website.
  • 'Artworks Form Part Of The Cult Of Beauty Exhibition At The Victoria and Albert Museum', Getty website.
  • Calvert, Robyne, 'The Fan', in Artistic Dress, blog, 23 January 2012, website at https://artisticdress.wordpress.com.

Last updated: 28th May 2021 by Margaret