Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter
- Date
- c. 1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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Framed: 39 1/2 x 31 9/16 x 2 1/4 in.
29 1/2 x 21 in. (74.9 x 53.3 cm)
- Department
- American Art before 1950
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Bequest of Henry Glover Stevens in memory of Ellen P. Stevens and Mary M. Stevens
- Accession No.
- 34.27
- Provenance
- Alexander Ionides.
Alecco Ionides
George McCulloch, London, 1895; to his widow, Mrs. Coutts Michie, 1907
William O'Leary Fine Arts, Detroit, until 1911.
Henry Glover Stevens, Detroit, 1911
Acquired in 1934
- Keywords
-
canvas, oil, paint, portrait, self portrait, half length
Published References
DIA BULLETIN, vol 14, no 2, 1934, p 20.
LONDON MEMORIAL EXHIBITION, 1905, no 30.
Way, T. and Dennis, G. R., THE ART OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1905.
Gallatin, A. E., "Whistler-The Self-Portrait in Oil", ART IN AMERICA, vol 1, p 151.
Pennell, E. R. and J., THE LIFE OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, London: W. Heinemann, 1908, p 80.
DMA, SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN ARTISTS, 1916, no 103
DIA, SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION, 1921, no 134.
SOCIETY OF FRENCH ARTISTS 6TH EXHIBITION, 1873, no 130.
Galerie Georges Petit, EXPOSITION INTERNATIONAL, 1883, no 2.
Wildenstein's, New York, THE BIRTH OF IMPRESSIONISM, Mar 7-April 6, 1963, no 67.
Macbeth Gallery, New York, WHISTLER LOAN EXHIBITION, April 14-May 10, 1947, no 20 (cover ill).
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT., EXHIBITION OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, May 1-June 13, 1949, no 14.
Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL., OPENING EXHIBITION, April 8-June 3, 1951, p 56. Ohio, AMERICA AND IMPRESSIONISM, Oct 19-Dec 16, 1951.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N. Y., EXPATRIATES: WHISTLER, CASSATT, SARGENT, Jan 4-25,
Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, SARGENT, WHISTLER AND MARY CASSATT, Jan 14- May 23, 1954, no 103.
ART NEWS, vol 53, no 2, April, 1954, p 21 (ill).
Sutton, D., "Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler", COUNTRY LIFE, 1963, frontispiece (ill).
Sutton, D., JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, PAINTINGS ETCHINGS, 1966, p 190, pl 59 (ill).
Brooklyn Museum, N. Y., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond , California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, TRIUMPH OF REALISM, Oct 3, 1967-Mar 31, 1968, no 7 (ill). (Catalogue dates it 1867).
Nationalgelerie, Berlin, Germany, JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903), Oct 1-Nov 24, 1969, p 73, pl 20 (ill p 47).
THE WORLD OF WHISTLER 1834-1903, TIME-LIFE LIBRARY OF ART, 1970, p 120-21, (col ill). (As Arrangement in Grey.)
Spencer, R., AESTHETIC MOVEMENT, London: Studio Vista, 1972, p 94 (ill).
McMullen, R., VICTORIAN OUTSIDER, New York: Dutton, 1973, p 17 (ill).
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y., DIA, Toledo Museum of Art, OH., Cleveland Museum of Art, OH., HERITAGE AND HORIZON, Mar 6-Oct 10, 1976, no 29 (ill).
DIA, ARTS AND CRAFTS IN DETROIT, Nov 26, 1976-Jan 16, 1973, p 246 (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT FREE PRESS May 20, 1979, p 27 (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT NEWS/DETROIT FREE PRESS, April 18, 1982, p 23 (ill).
Stein, D., WHISTLER, The Artists Limited Edition: NY, 1984, frontispiece (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertisingg Supplement, DETROIT NEWS, April 14, 1985, p 26 (ill).
DIA, 100 MASTERWORKS FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, Hudson Hills Press, Inc, NY, 1985, p 200, p 201 (ill).
Reff, Theodore, DEGAS, THE ARTIST'S MIND, Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1987, fig 2.
Kondek, Donna, "Whistler's Other," WAYNE STATE, vol 1 no 2, 1987, p 13.
Young, Andrew McLaren; Mac Donald, Margaret; Spencer, Robin, THE PAINTING OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, New Haven and London, 1980 vol 1, pp 74-75, no 122.
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Washington 1995, 59. fig. 2:10
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EXHIBITED: Londeon 1872, no. 130. Paris, Durand-Ruel, 1873. Paris 1883, no. 2. london 1892, no. 30. London 1895, no. 10. London 1905, no. 30. London 1909, no. 299. Detroit 1921, no. 134. New york 1947b, no. 20. New London 1949, no. 14. Birmingham 1951. Utica 1953, no. 4. Chicago and New York 1954. London and New York 1960, no. 29. New York 1963, no. 67. Brooklyn et al. 1967, no. 7. Berlin 1969. Buffalo et al. 1976. Detroit 1976, no. 245. Ann Arbor 1978.
