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

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Sybil Walk

Birthname: Walk
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1 February 1915
Date of death: 28 January 2009
Place of death: Reading, PA.
Category: collector

Identity:

A descendant of Whistler's patron Thomas de Kay Winans.

Life:

She inherited some early work by Whistler. In 1970 Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk presented an album of Whistler drawings and etchings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bibliography:

MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 .