James A. McNeill Whistler

Artist Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (British, 1834-1890)

Date1875

DimensionsH: 20 in. (50.8 cm)

MediumTerracotta, ebonised wood plinth.

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Florence Scott Libbey

Object number

1925.54

Not on View

Published ReferencesPennell, E.R. and J., Life of James McNeill Whistler, Philadelphia and London, 1908, vol. I, pp. 212 and 260 (the 1872 bust); vol. II, p. 36, repr. (the 1875 TMA bust).

The Bookman, October 1912, p. 37, repr.

Pennell, E. R. and J., The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 185, 308.

Spencer, Robin, ed., Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, repr. p. 27.

Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint, Washington, D.C., 1992, p. 87, fig. 34.

Stocker, Mark, Royalist and Realist: the Life and Works of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, New York, 1988, p. 404 and (cf.) pp. 69-70, fig. 56.

Exhibition HistoryLondon, New Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler, 1905, no. 148 (lent by Princess Louise).

Toledo Museum of Art, Whistler, 1961.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Whistler: The Later Years, 1978, back cover.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Way, T.R., Memories of James McNeill Whistler, London and New York, 1912, p. 26. Cf. Gallatin, A.E., Portraits of Whistler: A Critical Study and an Iconography, New York and London, 1918, p. 59, no. 190.