The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Cemetery dates from about 1887. The sheet is mounted in an album with other drawings acquired by Whistler's son Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).

Cemetery, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1161).

Images

Subject

Site

Cemetery, The Hunterian

Cemetery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Neither the cemetery nor the occasion have been identified. There is one of two drawings of the same scene (see Cemetery m1162).

Technique

Technique

Cemetery, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1161).

Conservation History

This is one of several drawings that were bound into an album, possibly by the Redfern Gallery, London, ca 1950.

History

Provenance

• 1890s: acquired, probably from the artist, by his son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).
• 1952: bought on 8 December from the Redfern Gallery, London, by the Hunterian Art Gallery.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1161) as 'Cemetery'.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.