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

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Venus Rising from the Sea

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. 93), plate 67, as 'Venus Rising from the Sea'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • None.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 134.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 60, repr. pl. 21.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, repr. pl. 49.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 33.

Books, General

  • Gunter, Ann Clyburn, A Collector's Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2002, pp. 37, 136.
  • Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, pp. 190-91, photo repr. p. 191.
  • Prettejohn, Elizabeth, Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 115.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 111, 292, pl. 13.
  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 13 (03.78).

EXHIBITION:

  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (cat. no. 262).

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://www.si.edu/object/fsg_F1903.174a-b.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 249).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 24th October 2020 by Margaret