Maud Reading in Bed (Alternate Titles: Interior: Study of a Woman in Bed; Interior, Woman Resting in Bed; Maud in Bed)

Inscriptions

Signed, upper right: [butterfly device]

Course History

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012

SART 15, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2014

Exhibition History

American Works on Paper from the Gilded Age, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 31-July 2011.

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), March 11-June 25, 1989.

Image of Woman, Carpenter Hall Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 30-February 29, 1976.

James McNeill Whistler, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, no. 34 (as Interior: Study of a Woman in Bed), 1949.

James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, England, no. 133, October 12, 1994-January 8, 1995; Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France, February 6-April 30, 1995; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 28-August 20, 1995.

James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), January 9-March 13, 1988.

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

Nineteenth Century American Drawings, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat. no.), August 27-October 31, 1976.

Nineteenth Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 24-April 23, 1978.

Notes, Harmonies & Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistle, Knoedler-Modarco, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, no. 24, November 30-December 27, 1984.

Recent Acquisitions, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-July, 1972.

Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, no. 20, June 6-August 30, 1998.

The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.

Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (no cat. no.), 1978.

Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Dartmouth College Collections Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 7, May 30-September 21, 1975.

Publication History

Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonne, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 342, ill. p. 342, number 902.

Connaissance des Arts, Whistler, Special Edition, New York: Connaissance des Arts, February 1995, ill. inside back cover.

Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, London, England: Tate Gallery Publications, p. 215, no. 133, 1994.

Jacquelynn Baas, From "a few curious Elephants Bones" to Picasso, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Dartmouth College: Trustees of Dartmouth College, September 1985, pp. 37-43, ill. p. 41.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Paintings in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College", November, 1985, p. 1025.

Margaret F. MacDonald, Notes Harmonies & Nocturnes, Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, 1984, p. 32.

Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 17-18.

Art Journal, 1972, p. 46.

Annette Carroll Compton, Drawing From the Mind Painting From the Heart, 1st ed., New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of VNU Business Media, Inc., 2002, 144 pp., ill. p. 34.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 23, 38, 114, 116-117, 120, 257-258, ill. p. 23, fig. 19, 115, front cover, no. 29.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 138, no. 110.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 89

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 126, ill. plate no. 57.

Provenance

Whistler family, Baltimore, Maryland; Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, New York; Elizabeth Deborah Steele Elton (1875-1962) and John Prince Elton (1865-1948), Waterbury, Connecticut, before 1948; bequeathed to their daughter and son-in-law, Deborah Richmond Elton Allen (1908-2003) and Arthur Elliot Allen, Jr. (1911-2010), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1950s; given to present collection, 1971.

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