Whistler in The Frick Collection
November 27, 1984 to February 4, 1985
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), The Frick Collection exhibited all of its Whistler holdings. Whistler's The Ocean (left), three pastels of Venice, twelve etchings from his famous "Venice Set," a lithograph of Robert, Comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac, and two letters written to Montesquiou and R.A. Canfield were on view in the lower-level gallery. The four full-length portraits by Whistler of Miss Rosa Corder, Mrs. Frederick R. Leyland, Valerie, Lady Meux, and Robert, Comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac, hung in the Oval Room.
James McNeill Whistler's Symphony in Grey and Green: The Ocean, 1866. The Frick Collection, New York