Whistler Centenary Conference

Conference Programme
3 - 6 September 2003

Gilmorehill Centre
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ

THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER
Academic Sessions:

Session A: Whistler and his contemporaries
Chair: Kenneth McConkey

PAUL BARLOW, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Whistler and Millais: Allies or Opposites?
[abstract]

LILLY KOLTUN, Portrait Gallery of Canada
Whistler and the Photographers
[abstract]

KATHARINE LOCHNAN, Art Gallery of Ontario
Whistler and Monet: Impressionism and Britain
[abstract]

JOANNA MEACOCK, University of Glasgow
Apostles of the New Gospel: Whistler and Rossetti
[abstract]

Session B: Whistler at work: materials and practice
Chair: Erma Hermens

LESLIE CARLYLE, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage
From Pigments to Colours: the Change in Artists' Oil Painting Materials 1840-1900
[abstract]

JOYCE H. TOWNSEND, Tate Britain
Whistler's Choice of Painting Materials
[abstract]

STEPHEN HACKNEY, Tate Britain
Whistler's Painting Technique
[abstract]

MARGARET F. MACDONALD, University of Glasgow
What is a Whistler?
[abstract]

Collections and Demonstrations Session:

Guided visit to Hunterian Art Gallery Print Room hosted by Pamela Robertson
Whistler in the Studio - gallery talk with Erma Hermens

MIRANDA STEAD, Artists' Papers Register
From Aalto to Zut: the Artists' Papers Register
[abstract]

RUPERT SHEPHERD, Ashmolean Museum
Ariadne Electronica: Digitising the Ruskin Teaching Collection
[abstract]

CENTRE FOR WHISTLER STUDIES
The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler 1855-1903, On-line Centenary Edition (demonstrations)

FRIDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER
Academic Sessions:

Session C: Whistler at a distance
Chair: Robin Spencer

DAVID CURRY, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Style Wars
[abstract]

JOY NEWTON, University of Glasgow
Whistler and Art Criticism in France
[abstract]

AYAKO ONO, Independent scholar
Whistler and Japan
[abstract]

GRISCHKA PETRI, University of Bonn
A Split Image: Whistler and Modern Art in Germany
[abstract]

Session D: Writing about Whistler
Chair: Anna Robins

CAROLINE ARSCOTT, Courtauld Institute of Art
Stenographic Notations: Whistler's Late Etchings
[abstract]

JULIAN HANNA, University of Glasgow
Whistler's 'Ten O'clock' and the Origins of the Manifesto in British Modernism
[abstract]

ROBERT S. SLIFKIN, Yale University
Whistler as the Invisible Man: Anti-Aestheticism and Artistic Vision
[abstract]

DANIEL SUTHERLAND, University of Arkansas
Getting Right with Whistler: an Artist and his Biographers
[abstract]

JOYCE STONER, University of Delaware
Whistler Through the Eyes of his Women (performance piece)

SATURDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER
Academic Sessions:

Session E: Whistler's correspondence
Chair: Centre for Whistler Studies

MONICA KJELLMAN CHAPIN, Clark University
Points of Context and Contact: Whistler's Nudes Framed
[abstract]

LINDA J. DOCHERTY, Bowdoin College
Transatlantic Correspondence: James McNeill Whistler and Isabella Stewart Gardner
[abstract]

GEORGIA TOUTZIARI, University of Glasgow
Ambition, hopes and disappointments - The Relationship of Whistler and His Mother as Seen in Their Correspondence
[abstract]