The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Map of America is signed and dated 1851. It was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) or his family and put into an album.

Map of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 78).

Images

Subject

Site

Map of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A map of North and South America, with part of Labrador and Greenland.

Technique

Technique

Map of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is elaborately coloured, lettered and outlined, with mountain ranges and the sea indicated. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 78).

Conservation History

The drawing was stuck into an album (p. 17).

History

Provenance

• 1853/1854: given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family;
• 1878-1970: passed by family descent to his daughter Celeste Marguerite Winans (Mrs G. M. Hutton) (1855-1925), her daughter Lucette Marguerite Hutton, Mrs H. A. Prichard (1885-1957), and grand-daughters, Margaret Celeste Prichard, Mrs T. A. Buell (1908-1970), Helen Lucette Prichard, Mrs J. M. King (1913-2005), and Sybil Agnes Prichard, Mrs E. G. Walk (1915-2009);
• 1970: given by Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 78) as 'Map of America'.

Journals 1906-Present

• Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54.

Websites

• Metropolitan Museum of Art website.