The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0202
Policeman and citizen
Date
Policeman and citizen dates from 1855 and was given to a fellow-draughtsman at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington DC, John Ross Key (1837-1920).
Policeman and citizen, Art Institute Of Chicago
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 202).
Images
Policeman and citizen, Art Institute Of Chicago
Subject
Sitter
Policeman and citizen, Art Institute Of Chicago
This was probably drawn from imagination.
Technique
Technique
Policeman and citizen, Art Institute Of Chicago
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 202), and Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 2).
History
Provenance
- 1855: given by Whistler to a fellow-draughtsman at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington DC, John Ross Key (1837-1920);
- 1896: possibly sold by Key to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912), New York dealer;
- 1906: Keppel and Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York dealer, showed several drawings, possibly including this, to Joseph Pennell (1860-1926).
- 1927: bequeathed by Charles Deering (1852-1927) to the Art Institute of Chicago.
For further details, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 199).
Exhibitions
- 1896: Frederick Keppel, Chicago, 1896 (no cat. no.).
It was reproduced in the Chicago Times Herald, 8 March 1896, p. 30.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 202) as 'Policeman and citizen'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Frederick Keppel, Chicago, 1896 (no cat. no.).
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Chicago Times Herald, 8 March 1896, repr. p. 30.
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 46.
Journals 1906-Present
- Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54, at p. 153.
Websites
- Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website.
- Strother, Stephanie L., 'Early Drawings (Cats. 1–5)' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL (cat. no. 5).