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Home>Exhibitions>Past>1995>James McNeill Whistler

# James McNeill Whistler

May 28 – August 20, 1995West Building Main Floor

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview:** 64 paintings, 83 drawings, 48 prints, and 4 books from the National Gallery's collection and other public and private collections were gathered in a survey of Whistler's career. The exhibition, which included *Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother*, was the most important retrospective of the artist's work since the memorial exhibitions in 1904-1905.

A 17-minute video program, *James McNeill Whistler: The Lyrics of Art*, was shown continuously adjacent to the exhibition. It was supported by the International Corporate Circle of the National Gallery of Art. A symposium on Whistler's life and art was held June 2-3. This exhibition was on view concurrently with *Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries* at the National Gallery. 2 other exhibitions on Whistler were on display in Washington over the summer, one at the National Portrait Gallery and the other at the Freer Gallery of Art.

**Organization:**The exhibition was organized as a collaboration of the Tate Gallery, London; the Réunion des musées nationaux and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The curators were Richard Dorment, writer and critic; Margaret F. MacDonald, research fellow at the Centre for Whistler Studies at the University of Glasgow; Geneviève Lacambre, conservateur général du patrimoine at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris; and Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art.

**Sponsor:**The exhibition was made possible by a grant from NYNEX Foundation. It was also supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

**Image:**James McNeill Whistler, *Beach Scene*, probably 1885, watercolor on off-white paper mounted on paperboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.7.3

**Attendance:**  182,886

**Catalog:***James McNeill Whistler*, by Richard Dorment and Margaret MacDonald, with Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Ruth E. Fine, and Geneviève Lacambre. London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994.

**Brochure:***James McNeill Whistler*, by Charles Brock. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995.

**Other Venues:**  Tate Gallery, London, October 24, 1994–January 8, 1995Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 6–April 30, 1995

Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner - Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s

                    - Whistler, James McNeill
                    - American , 1834 - 1903

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