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

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Study of a Head

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. 427), plate 264, as 'Study of a Head'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 52) as 'Study of a Head'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Huish, Marcus B. (ed.), Year's Art, London, 1897, photograph of A. Graves repr. f.p. 290.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 164, cat. no. 52 as 'Study of a Head'.

Books, General

  • Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection,Columbus, OH, 1976, pp. 39-40.
  • Valentiner, W. R., and Paul Wescher, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, Columbus, Ohio, 1955 (cat. no. 4), repr. p. 11, as 'Portrait of Mr Graves, printseller'.
  • Williamson, George Charles, Murray Marks and his Friends, London and New York, 1919, pp. 133-34.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1954 (cat. no. 110) as 'Mr Graves, the Printseller'.
  • Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI, 1955 (cat. no. 47, repr.).
  • Eleven Americans - 1860-1960, Art Institute of Zanesville, OH, 1960 as 'Portrait of a Man'.
  • Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978 (cat. no. 101).

SALES:

  • Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 October 1942 (lot 137) as 'Mr. Graves, Printseller'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Websites

  • Columbus Museum of Art website at https://www.columbusmuseum.org.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 134, 134a).

Other

  • Graves, Algernon, Art Sales, from early in the eighteenth century to early in the twentieth century, 3 vols., London, 1918, I, portrait of Graves by Rosa Corder repr. frontispiece.

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret