The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Maud Reading, in a Hammock dates from 1880.

Maud Reading, in a Hammock, Fogg Art Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 780).

Images

Subject

Site

According to the Pennells it was painted 'at the rooms of Mrs George E. Hopkins who was then living next to Whistler on the Riva degli Schiavoni.' ¹

Sitter

Maud Reading, in a Hammock, Fogg Art Museum

Maud Franklin (1857-1939), who joined Whistler in Venice.

Technique

Technique

Maud Reading, in a Hammock, Fogg Art Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 780).

History

Provenance

• 1880: given by Whistler on 11 July to the artist George Edward Hopkins (1855-1924).
• By 1905: owned by A. Buck;
• 1905: owned by G. H. Buck, Brooklyn, posssibly until 1917.
• Date unknown: with Kennedy, New York art dealers.
• Date unknown: acquired by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939), New Orleans;
• 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University;
• 1941: bought in April by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943);
• 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 780).

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 120) as 'Maude Reading, in a Hammock'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 780) as 'Maud Reading, in a Hammock'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 120) as 'Maude Reading, in a Hammocl'.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 29, 153.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, repr. f.p. 28.

Books, General

• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 420-421 (cat. no. 447) repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Gillerman, Dorothy W. (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1969, p. 243.
• Cohn, Marjorie B., Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1977, pp. 14, 110 (cat. no. 64).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 198, repr. fig. 128.2 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

• Kobbe, Gustave, 'American Water Color Painters', Mentor, 15 May 1917, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 1-11, repr. p. 2.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.