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

 

Self-Portrait

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. 461) as 'Self-Portrait', plates 341, 437.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • None.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Gallatin, Albert Eugene, The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler: An Iconography, London, New York and Toronto, 1913, p. 7.
  • Peters, Lisa N., James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1996, p. 79, repr.

Books, General

  • McLaughlan, Robert, Gifted, Edinburgh, 1990, pp. 108-09.
  • McPherson, Heather, Fin-de-Siecle Faces: Portraiture in the Age of Proust, The Visual Arts Gallery, The University of Birmingham at Birmingham, 1988, p. 44, n. 70.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 63) as 'Sketch for a Self Portrait'.
  • 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, pp. 284, 304 note 2 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Shaw, Edith, and Margaret F. MacInnes [M. F. MacDonald], ‘Four Years with Whistler’, Apollo, vol. 87, March 1968, pp. 198-201, p. 201, repr. fig. 5.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41088.
  • Simon, J., 'British picture restorers, 1600-1950 - C', National Portrait Gallery website, at http://www.npg.org.uk/research.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 10) 'Self portrait'.

Other

  • Denker, Eric, In Pursuit of the Butterfly:Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, PhD thesis, University of Virginia, 1995, p. 185.
  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret