Visit The Artwork

Whistler’s paintings and works on paper are in the collections of over 100 museums and cultural institutions in the United States and over 40 overseas. If you are planning a visit to any of these institutions, please note that not all holdings are on view at all times and some do travel.

However, several of the museums listed have permanent Whistler installations. These include the Colby Museum of Art, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow.

Most of the museums on this list own works on paper (etchings, drawings, pastels and watercolors). The range of holdings (paintings, works on paper, paintings and works on paper) are noted and the singular is used here if the collection includes a single work on paper, or painting. We have also noted places of interest.

The website includes a short video on the process of etching, as well as essays on Whistler’s etching history. The website also includes a representative sampling of both the paintings and the etchings.

UNITED STATES

ALABAMA

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery; Works on paper

ARIZONA

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson; Works on paper

ARKANSAS

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Painting and works on paper

CALIFORNIA

deYoung Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Paintings and works on paper

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford; Works on paper

LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Paintings and works on paper

Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona; Works on paper

CONNECTICUT

Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Middletown; Works on paper

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington; Paintings and works on paper

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Painting and works on paper

Yale Center for British Art , New Haven; Paintings and works on paper

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA–Washington, DC

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Paintings and works on paper

Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC; Paintings and works on paper; the Peacock Room

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Paintings and works on paper

Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Works on paper

National Archives, Washington, DC; Work on paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Paintings and works on paper

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Works on paper

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Painting and work on paper

Smithsonian American Art Museum; Paintings and works on paper

The White House Historical Association; Painting

GEORGIA

Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Painting and works on paper

High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Works on paper

Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta; Works on paper

HAWAII

Honolulu Museum of Art; Painting and works on paper

ILLINOIS

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Paintings and works on paper

Block Museum of Art, Evanston; Works on paper

DePaul University Museum, Chicago; Work on paper

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago; Works on paper

INDIANA

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington; Works on paper

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Paintings and works on paper

IOWA

Figge Art Museum, Davenport; Works on paper

KANSAS

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence; Works on paper

Wichita Art Museum, Wichita; Works on paper

KENTUCKY

University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Works on paper

Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Works on paper

MAINE

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Works on paper

Colby Museum of Art, Waterville; Paintings and works on paper

MARYLAND

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Works on paper

Walters Museum, Baltimore; Painting and work on paper

MASSACHUSETTS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Paintings and works on paper

Boston Public Library, Boston; Works on paper

Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum, Cambridge; Paintings and works on paper

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Paintings and works on paper

Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst; Works on paper

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley; Works on paper

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Paintings and works on paper

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Works on paper

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Works on paper

Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell; Works on paper; Whistler birthplace

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester; Painting and works on paper

MICHIGAN

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit; Paintings and works on paper

Charles Lang Freer House; Home of Whistler’s last patron

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Works on paper

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; Paintings and works on paper

MISSISSIPPI

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel; Works on paper

MISSOURI

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; Works on paper

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Works on paper

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester; Works on paper

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; Works on paper

NEW JERSEY

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair; Painting and works on paper

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Works on paper

NEW YORK

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Works on paper

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Works on paper

Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York City; Works on paper

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Works on paper

Frick Collection, New York City; Paintings and works on paper

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester; Works on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Paintings and works on paper

Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Works on paper

New York Pubic Library, New York City; Works on paper

Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse; Works on paper

NORTH CAROLINA

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Works on paper (ukiyo-e prints)

OHIO

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin; Works on paper

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Works on paper

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Works on paper

Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati; Paintings and works on paper

Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati; Paintings and works on paper

OKLAHOMA

Gilcrease Museum, University of Tulsa; Paintings and works on paper

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Works on paper

OREGON

Portland Museum of Art, Portland; Works on paper

PENNSYLVANIA

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Paintings and works on paper

Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington; Works on paper

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Painting and works on paper

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Paintings and works on paper

Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg; Works on paper

RHODE ISLAND

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Painting and works on paper

SOUTH CAROLINA

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston; Works on paper

TENNESSEE

Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga; Painting and works on paper

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Works on paper, also Japanese woodcuts

TEXAS

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Forth Worth; Works on paper

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Work on paper

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Works on paper

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Works on paper

UTAH

Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City; Work on paper

VERMONT

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury; Works on paper

VIRGINIA

Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland; Works on paper

Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar; Works on paper

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Paintings and works on paper

WEST VIRGINIA

Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, Charleston; Works on paper

WASHINGTON

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Works on paper

WISCONSIN

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison; Works on paper

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Works on paper

 

OVERSEAS

AUSTRALIA

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria; Works on paper

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Painting and works on paper

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Works on paper

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Works on paper

AUSTRIA

The Albertina, Vienna; Works on paper

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Works on paper

CANADA

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; Works on paper

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Works on paper

Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; Works on paper

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; Works on paper

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Works on paper

DENMARK

National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; Works on paper

FRANCE

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Works on paper

Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Paintings and works on paper

GERMANY

Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; Workson paper

Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; Workson paper

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Works on paper

Staatilche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Works on paper

GREAT BRITAIN:

ENGLAND

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford; Paintings and works on paper

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham; Painting and works on paper

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham; Works on paper

British Museum, London; Works on paper

Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Workson paper

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Painting and works on paper

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Works on paper

Museum of London, London; Works on paper

Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Works on paper

Tate Britain, London; Paintings and works on paper

Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Works on paper and ephemera

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Works on paper

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Works on paper

SCOTLAND

Burrell Collection, Glasgow; Works on paper

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; Paintings and works on paper

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , Glasgow, Scotland; Painting and works on paper

McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock; Works on paper

McManus Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee; Works on paper

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; Painting and works on paper

WALES

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Painting and works on paper

ISRAEL

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Works on paper

NETHERLANDS

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Painting and works on paper

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Works on paper

SPAIN

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Works on paper