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

 

Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt

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. 481), plate 310, as 'Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 22), as 'Inachevé – (Le dernier portrait en pied que Whistler ait peint)'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

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, no. 191, 188.
  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 173-74.
  • Duret, Théodore, trans. by Frank Rutter, Whistler, English edition, London, 1917, pp. 116-17.
  • McMullen, Roy, Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J.A.M. Whistler, New York, 1973, p. 268.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 203.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 134, fig. 56.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 38, 197, pl. 123.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 335.

Books, General

  • Williams, William James, A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1981, repr. 131, 133, 135.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970 (cat. no. 122), repr.
  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980 (cat. no. 259), repr.
  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992 (cat. no. 382), repr.
  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles, American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, DC, 1998, pp. 261-64, repr.

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 52).
  • On loan for display with the permanent collection, Biltmore House and Gardens, Asheville, North Carolina, 1972-1974.
  • Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980 (cat. no. 255), repr.
  • American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1981-1982 (cat. no. 65), 67-68, 194-195, repr. pl. 65.
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 199) (not shown in the exhibition).
  • Whistler and Vanderbilt: An Artist and His Patron, Biltmore House, Asheville, 1999 (no catalogue).
  • The Year 1900: Art at the Crossroads, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2000 (cat. no. 89) repr.
  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 154, repr. fig. 97 (not exhibited).
  • High Society: American Portraits of the Gilded Age, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 2008 (cat. no. 11), repr.
  • Americani a Firenze: Sargent e gli impressionisti del Nuovo Mondo (Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2012 (cat. no. 33), repr.

Journals 1906-Present

  • MacInnes, Margaret F., [M. F. MacDonald], 'Whistler's Last Years: Spring 1901 - Algiers and Corsica', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 73, 1969, pp. 323-42, at p. 330.

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at http://www.nga.gov.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 226).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 18th October 2020 by Margaret