Author Archives: Elena Cooper

About Elena Cooper

Dr Elena Cooper is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at CREATe, University of Glasgow and is the author of Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is also a member of IAL.

Whistler’s Woman in White through the lens of copyright history

Posted on: May 16, 2022 by Elena Cooper

In February a new exhibition opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London about the painter and printmaker James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan, which runs until 22 May 2022, before moving to the National Gallery of Art, Washington (3 July to 22 October 2022). The centre-piece of the […]

Whistler’s portrait and copyright in artistic works

Posted on: July 15, 2021 by Elena Cooper

This month sees the opening of a major new exhibition of the work of the artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, which holds one of the largest Whistler collections in the world: Whistler: Art and Legacy (9 July-31 October 2021). In this blog, I reflect on how one painting by […]