Whistler's Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder

[genevievehannon]

The famous Whistler collection of my Great Grandfather, Richard A. Canfield, was the second largest in the country and sold to M. Knoedler Co. in 1914. 34 of Richard's Whistlers - oils, water colors, pastels, pen and ink and pencil drawings - but not the portrait of Richard himself. Whistler and Richard were very close friends. Whistler's last work was of my Great Grandfather whom he called teasingly, "His Reverence". The Rosa Corder portrait belonged to Richard and hangs in the Frick.