[1] A 1921 article in the American Magazine of Art lists San Francisco's Chinatown as a particular influence on her artistic development.
[3] She designed costumes for Belasco's opera A Grand Army Man in 1904, and for his 1907 production The Rose of the Rancho, as well as for the 1914 operetta Sari by C.S.
[8] She is noted in an article in the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society as the designer of a bookplate for books "Given by the Ladies of the Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco," in 1904.
[9] In the 1920s, Wheelan produced a newspaper comic called In Rabbitboro, originally published in the George Matthew Adams Service bulletin.
[16] In an account of women illustrators' work shown at the Fair, Alice C. Morse wrote that Wheelan "shows great originality, a remarkable sense of the humorous, and a daring handling of the pen.