James Mcneill Whistler

Non-destructive Investigation of Paintings on Canvas by Continuous Wave Terahertz Imaging and Flash Thermography

“…The original artwork is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1871 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, titled Portrait of the Painter's Mother ( Fig. 1) [6,14,20,67].…”

THE PHANTASM OF AESTHETIC AUTONOMY IN WHISTLER'S WORK: TITLING THE WHITE GIRL

“…According to Dorment, 'Whistler's aesthetic intentions were distorted by literary readings' when the work was exhibited in the 1860s. 64 A subsequent interpretation by Kathleen Pyne instead emphasized elements in The White Girl that connect it with the narratives of threatened or violated feminine purity that were common in gothic fiction. Pyne's account privileged the comments of early critics who 'treated The White Girl as the representational picture rooted in nineteenth-century literary conventions that it was, rather than the pure composition with solely formal interest that Whistler said it was.'…”

‘Embryonic Phantoms’: Materiality, Marginality and Modernity in Whistler’s Black Portraits

“…He used a paint mixture lacking in solidity, a 'sauce' was made of copal, turpentine and linseed oil, and he developed a way of staining the canvas, treating oils as if they were transparent watercolours. 15 As 'Embryonic Phantoms'…”