Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 178) as 'Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room', plates 116-20.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 487, 579-84, 989-92, 1581, 1603).

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, 'Mr. Whistler writes' [Letter to the Editor] in ‘Notes and News’, The Academy, 9 September 1876, p. 275.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, Harmony in Blue and Gold. The Peacock Room, London, 1877.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, [Letter to 'Atlas'], The World: A Journal For Men and Women, vol. 21, 31 December 1884, reprinted as ‘Noblesse oblige’ in Whistler 1890, p. 174-75. Reprinted in Ford, Sheridan (ed.), The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: With Some Whistler Stories Old and New, New York, 1890, pp. 124-25.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 174-75.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Harmony in Blue and Gold. The Peacock Room, London, 1877 (this was not a catalogue but was issued to provide visitors of the room with information).
  • Obach & Co. [C. J. Holmes], The Peacock Room, exhibition catalogue, London, June 1904.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Decorative Art', Morning Post, London, 8 December 1876, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'Special Correspondence', Leeds Mercury, Leeds, 6 January 1877, p. 7.
  • Anon., 'Art at Home - Mr. Layland’s [sic] at Princes-Gate', Observer, London, 28 January 1877.
  • Anon.[Carr, Joseph Comyns], 'Mr Whistler's Decorative Paintings', The Pall Mall Gazette, 15 February 1877, p. 11.
  • [Taylor, Tom], 'A Peacock Room', The Times, London, 15 February 1877, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'Art: Ornamental Painting', The Examiner, 24 February 1877, pp. 244-45.
  • Godwin, E. W., 'Notes on Mr. Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Daily Courier, Liverpool, 24 February 1877, pp. 118-19.
  • Godwin, E. W., 'Mr. F. R. Leyland’s “Peacock Room” ', Daily Courier, Liverpool, 3 March 1877, p. 6 (reprint of Godwin, E. W., 'Notes on Mr. Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Daily Courier, Liverpool, 24 February 1877, pp. 118-19).
  • Smalley, George W., 'London Topics: Progress in Household Art', New York Daily Tribune, New York, 5 March 1877, p. 2.
  • Smalley, George W., 'Books and Art in London: Notable Literary Events', New York Daily Tribune, New York, 29 March 1877, p. 6.
  • Smalley, George W., 'London Topics: Household Decoration … Whistler's 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold' ...', New York Daily Tribune, New York, 6 July 1878, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'The Late Mr. Leyland’s Beautiful House: Mr. Whistler and the Peacock Room', The Pall Mall Gazette, London, 6 January 1892, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'The Late Mr. Leyland’s Beautiful House: Mr. Whistler and the Peacock Room', Pall Mall Budget, London, vol. 60, 14 January 1892, p. 48.
  • Anon., 'A Palace of Art', The Pall Mall Gazette, London, 23 May 1892, p. 3 (Fighting Peacocks repr.).
  • Anon., ‘Whistler's Peacock Room’, Pall Mall Gazette, London, 2 June 1904, p. 10.
  • Anon., ‘Whistler's “Peacock Room” ’, Standard, London, 10 June 1904.
  • Anon., ‘Whistler's “Peacock Room” ’, Morning Post, London, 10 June 1904, p. 9.
  • Anon., ‘The Peacock Room: A Whistlerian revenge’, Daily News, London, 10 June 1904. p. 4.
  • Anon., ‘Whistler's Peacock Room’, Daily Chronicle, London, 11 June 1904, p. 8.
  • Anon., ‘The Peacock Room: Sale to an American’, Daily News, London, 13 June 1904, p. 4.
  • Anon., ‘Whistler's Peacock-Room’, Evening Times, Glasgow, 13 June 1904, p. 8.
  • Anon., Whistler's 'Peacock Room', Daily Telegraph, London, 13 June 1904, p. 7.
  • Anon., ‘Art and Artists’, Star, London, 14 June 1904, p. 1.
  • Anon., 'Peacock Room' Goes to Detroit’, New York Herald, New York, 14 June 1904, p. 10.
  • Anon., ‘Art Notes’, Illustrated London News, London, 16 June 1904, p. 932.
  • Anon., ‘Art and Artists’, Morning Post, London, 16 June 1904, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler’s Peacock Room', Pall Mall Budget, London, vol. 60, 16 June 1892, pp. 864-65.
  • Anon., ‘Mr. Freer is Mum: Will Neither Admit Nor Deny That He Bought the Peacock Room’, World, New York, 20 June 1904, p. 10.
  • Anon., 'Whistler’s Peacock Room for America', New York Herald, New York, 17 July 1904, p. 8, repr.
  • Anon., ‘Whistler's Work Coming Here’, World, New York, 17 August 1904.
  • Anon., ' “Peacock Room” Now in Detroit’, Evening News, Detroit, 3 September 1904, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'Whistler’s Peacock Room', Chicago Sunday Tribune, 4 September 1904, repr.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Notes and News', The Academy, vol. 10, no. 226, 2 September 1876, p. 249.
  • 'Wall Painting by Mr. Whistler', Architect, London, vol. 17, 13 January 1877, p. 26.
  • Anon., 'Peacock Decoration', The British Architect and Northern Engineer, vol. 7, 23 February 1877, p. 123.
  • Anon., 'Art: Ornamental Painting', The Examiner, 24 February 1877, pp. 244-45.
  • Wilde, Oscar, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Dublin University Magazine, vol. 90, no. 535, July 1877, pp. 118-26, at p. 125.
  • [Rossetti, William Michael], 'Notes on Art and Archaeology', The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art, new series, no. 11, 17 February 1877, pp. 147-48, at p. 147.
  • Duret, Théodore, 'James Whistler', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 23, April 1881, pp. 365-69, at pp. 366-67.
  • Anon., 'In the Peacock Room: A Variation', Punch, vol. 80, 8 October 1881, p. 157.
  • Anon., [Maus, Octave], 'James M.Neill [sic] Whistler', L'Art Moderne, no. 37, 13 September 1885, pp. 294-96.
  • Godwin, Edward W., 'Correspondence. Whistler and the Philistines. What is a 'Master', letter to the editor, Court and Society Review, vol. 3, no. 107, 22 July 1886, pp. [611 657-58].
  • Dowdeswell, Walter, 'Whistler', The Art Journal, new series, vol. 50, no. 586, April 1887, pp. 97-103, at p. 98.
  • Child, Theodore, 'A Pre-Raphaelite Mansion', Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 82, December 1890, pp. 81-99, at pp. 82-85, repr. p. 85.
  • Robinson, Lionel, 'The Private Art Collections of London. The Late Mr Frederick Leyland’s in Prince’s Gate. Second Paper The Leyland Collection', Art Journal, vol. 55, May 1892, pp. 134-38, at p. 134, wood engravings by J. E. Mitchell repr. pp. 132, 135.
  • Prinsep, Val C., 'A Collector's Correspondence', The Art Journal, August 1892, pp. 249-252.
  • Day, Lewis F., 'A Kensington Interior', Art Journal, May 1893, pp. 139-44, at pp. 143-44.
  • Lee, Vernon, 'Imagination in Modern Art: Random Notes on Whistler, Sargent, and Besnard', Fortnightly Review, vol. 62, October 1897. pp. 513021, ar pp. 513-15.
  • White, Gleeson, 'An Epoch-making House', Studio, vol. 12, New York, November 1897, p. 111 (International Studio, vol. 3, 1898, pp. 103-112).
  • Prinsep, Val C., 'James A. McNeill Whistler 1834-1903. I. - Personal Recollections', The Magazine of Art, new series, vol. 1, old series, vol. 27, October 1903, pp. 557-80.
  • Boughton, George Henry, 'A Few of the Various Whistlers I have known', The Studio, vol. 30, no. 129, December 1903, pp. 208-18; reprinted in The International Studio, vol. 21, January 1904, pp. 208-18, at p. 215.
  • Graves, Algernon, 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler', Printseller and Print Collector, vol. 1, August 1903, pp. 341-45, pp. 341-43.
  • Symons, Arthur, 'Whistler', The Weekly Critical Review: Devoted to Literature, Music and the Fine Arts, vol. 2, nos. 28-30, 30 July, 6 and 13 August 1903, pp. 36-37, 59-60 and 81-82.
  • Spielmann, Marion H. (ed.), 'James A. McNeill Whistler: 1834-1903. The Man and the Artist', The Magazine of Art, vols. 1 and 2, new series, vols. 27 and 28, old series, October and November 1903, pp. 580-84.
  • Dunn, M. Dudley, 'Art Notes: Whistler’s Famous Peacock Room', Madame, vol. 35, June 1904, pp. 706-07.
  • MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, 'Whistlers Pfauenzimmer', Kunst und Künstler: Illustrierte Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, vol. 3, December 1904, pp. 112-14.
  • Konody, P. G., 'Whistlers Pfauenzimmer', Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, vol. 7, 1904, pp. 385-91.

Monographs

  • [Stubbs, Burns A.], The Whistler Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1951.
  • Hobbs, Susan, The Whistler Peacock Room, 4th edition, Washington, DC, 1980.
  • Merrill, ‎Linda, Sarah Ridley, The Princess and the Peacocks Or, The Story of the Room, New York, 1993.
  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998.

Books on Whistler

  • Anderson, Ronald, and Ann Koval, James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, London, 1994, pp. 206-09.
  • Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, pp. 118-42.
  • Berman, Avis, First Impressions: James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1993, pp. 59-64.
  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 227 (cat. no. 481).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 14, 154-55.
  • Duret, Théodore, Critique d'Avant-Garde, Paris, 1885, pp. 252-53.
  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 47-48.
  • Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler, Philadelphia and London, 1903, pp. 128-31.
  • Fleming, Gordon Howard, James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life, Gloucestershire, 1988. pp. 161-66.
  • Laver, James, Whistler, London, 1930, pp. 160-161.
  • Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, pp. 179-81.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 96-97.
  • McMullen, Roy, Victorian Outsider: a Biography of J. A. M. Whistler, London, 1974, pp. 169-181, 194, 253.
  • Vaughan, William, 'A chance meeting of Whistler and Freud?…', in MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003, pp. 101-19, at p. 107.
  • Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, pp. 129-32.
  • Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in 'Whistler v. Ruskin', Washington and London, 1992, p. 34, fig. 19.
  • Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, pp. 30, 42.
  • Munhall, Edgar, Whistler and Montesquiou. The Butterfly and the Bat, New York, 1995, pp. 17, 21, repr.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 202-09, repr. f.p. 204, drawings repr. f.p. 200.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 98, 100, 105-11, drawings repr. f. pp. 104, 105.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 215-25.
  • Pocock, Tom, Chelsea Reach: the Brutal Friendship of Whistler and Walter Greaves, London, 1970, pp. 108-111.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, pp. 135-36.
  • Spalding, Frances, Whistler, Oxford and New York, 1979, pp. 52-60.
  • Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, p. 120.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 139-41.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, pp. 82-85, 93, 129, 138.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, pp. 26-29.
  • Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, pp. 86-90, 93, 95, 98, pl. 65, 66.
  • Walker, John, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1987, pp. 71-75.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, pp. 99-102.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 4, 34-36.
  • Weintraub, Stanley, Whistler: A Biography, London, 1974, pp. 169-81.

Books, General

  • Lamont, L. M., (ed.), Thomas Armstrong, C. B.: A Memoir, London, 1912, pp. 206-08.
  • Aslin, Elizabeth, The Aesthetic Movement: Prelude to Art Nouveau, London, 1969.
  • Berger, Klaus, Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse, Cambridge, 1992 [first edition, Munich, 1980], pp. 34, 44-46, 248, figs. 28-29 [Munich, pp. 50-51, fig. 28, 29].
  • Brown, Oliver, Exhibition: the Memoirs of Oliver Brown, London, 1968, p. 16.
  • Crane, Walter, An Artist's Reminiscences, London, 1907, pp. 199-200.
  • Crane, Walter, William Morris to Whistler: Papers and addresses on art and craft and the commonweal, London, 1911, pp. 267-69.
  • Gaunt, William, The Aesthetic Adventure, London, 1945, p. 98.
  • Gere, Charlotte, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior,New York, 1989, pp. 33, 169, 329, figs. 395-396.
  • Hadley, Rollin van N. (ed.), Drawings, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Boston, 1968, pp. 37-41, drawings repr. p. 41.
  • Haweis, Hugh Reginald, Money and Morals: a Sermon Preached at St. James' Hall, London, February 18, 1977 by H. R. Haweis, Cornhill, London, 1877, pp. 7-8.
  • Henderson, Helen W., The Art Treasures of Washington: An Account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with Descriptions and Criticisms of their Contents, Boston, 1912, p. 244.
  • Jopling, Louise, Twenty Years of My Life, 1867 to 1887, London, 1925, p. 216.
  • Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, pp. 180-81, fig. 120.
  • Montesquiou, Robert de, Les Pas effacés: Mémoires, 3 vols, Paris, 1923, pp. 254-55.
  • Preston, Kerrison (ed.), Letters of W. Graham Robertson, London, 1953, pp. 362-63.
  • Raby, Julian, Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries, London and Washington, 2010, pp. 22-25.
  • Soros, Susan Weber, and Catherine Arbuthnott, Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827-1881,, New York and New Haven, 2003, pp. 193-197.
  • Spencer, Robin, The Aesthetic Movement, London and New York, 1972, repr. pp. 171-73.
  • Tweedie, [Ethel Brilliana], Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman’s Life, London, 1912, pp. 169-70.
  • Williamson, George Charles, Murray Marks and his Friends, London and New York, 1919, pp. 88-97.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1984, chapter entitled 'Artist and Architect', pp. 53-69.
  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 13 (04.61).
  • [Stubbs, Burns A.], The Whistler Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1951, pp. 1-18, repr. pp. 8, 12, 13, 15, 18.

EXHIBITION:

  • Goupil Gallery, Catalogue of Oil Paintings, a Water Colour and Etchings, by Walter Greaves, Pupil of Whistler, London, [1911], p. 4 (not exhibited).
  • Honeyman, Tom John, Whistler: Arrangements in Grey and Black, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1951, p. 9 (not exhibited).
  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (drawing, cat. no. 118).
  • Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1968 (drawing, cat. no. 27).
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (drawing, cat. no. 31).
  • Reff, Theodore, and Allen Staley (eds), From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Columbia University, New York, 1971 (cat. no. 25), drawings repr. pl. 64.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Whistler: The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice, Agnew's, London, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1976 (drawing, cat. no. 92).
  • Burke, Doreen Bolger, et al., In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, pp. 122, 443 (not exhibited).
  • ホイスラー展. Whistler Exhibition in Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Shizuoka, 1986, p. 13 (not exhibited).
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995, pp. 164-67 (not exhibited).
  • Denker, Eric, In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1995, pp. 65-66, 68, fig. 3:7 (not exhibited).
  • Mendgen, Eva, In Perfect Harmony - Picture + Frame 1850-1920, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 91-93 (not exhibited).
  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 108, 222 (not exhibited).
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 12, fig. 8.
  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 32-33, repr. (not exhibited).
  • Stoner, Joyce Hill, 'Materials for Immateriality', in Simpson, Marc, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2008, pp. 91-109, at p. 96; (not exhibited).
  • Calloway, Stephen, and Lynn Federle Orr (eds), The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011 (image projected in exhibition).
  • Glazer, Lee S., The Peacock Room Comes to America, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2011 (published 2012).
  • Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015, pp. 157-64, repr. centrefold (not exhibited).
  • Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre, Sackler Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2015-2017.
  • Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2020.

SALE:

  • Osborn & Mercer, The Mansion; formerly the residence of the late F. R. Leyland, Esq., sale catalogue, London, 17 June 1892, repr. f.p. 8.
  • Obach & Co. [C. J. Holmes], The Peacock Room, exhibition catalogue, London, June 1904, repr.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Mechlin, Leila, 'The Freer Collection of Art', Century Magazine, New York, vol. 73, January 1907, pp. 357-68, at pp. 358-359.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, 'Whistler as Decorator: With an Incidental Comparison of the Influence of Whistler and that of William Morris', Century Magazine, vol. 83, February 1912, pp. 500-513.
  • Ionides, Luke, 'Memories: Whistler in the Quartier Latin', Transatlantic Review, vol. 1, January 1924, pp. 37-52, at pp. 47-48.
  • Abbott, K. (ed.) and Whistler, Anna McNeill, 'The Lady of the Portrait, Letters of Whistler’s Mother', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 136, 1925, pp. 310-28, at pp. 327-28.
  • Fell, Herbert Granville, 'Memories of Whistler, No. 1. - The Peacock Room', Connoisseur, vol. 95, 1935, pp. 21-24, No. 2, 'Patrons as Profiteers', pp. 74-76.
  • Stubbs, Burns A., 'James McNeill Whistler: A Biographical Outline Illustrated from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art', Occasional Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1950, vol. 1, no. 4pp. 16-17, pl. 10.
  • Anon., 'Whistler Memento', Hobbies - The Magazine for Collectors, December 1950, pp. 44-45.
  • Ferriday, Peter, 'The Peacock Room', Architectural Review, vol. 125, 1959, pp. 407-14.
  • Sutton, Denys, 'Whistler et l'Extreme-Orient', Session: 'L'Europe et la Decouverte du Monde', Cahiers de Bordeaux: Journees Internationales d'Etudes d'Art, vols. 7-8, July 1960, pp. 87-94.
  • Staley, Allen, 'The Condition of Music', Art News Annual, no. 33, 1967, pp. 80-87, at p. 85.
  • Hobbs, Susan, 'A Connoisseur's Vision: The American Collection of Charles Lang Freer', American Art Review, vol. 4, August 1977, pp. 76-101. at p. 79.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler's Designs for a Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain', Connoisseur, vol. 198, August 1975, pp. 290-95, repr. p. 295.
  • Horowitz, Ira M., 'Whistler's Frames', The Art Journal, vol. 39, Winter 1979-80, pp. 124-31, fig. 5.
  • Hobbs, Susan, 'Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art', Magazines Antiques, vol. 121, November 1981, pp. 1194-202, at pp. 1154, 1198-1199, pl. 8.
  • Curry, David Park, 'Charles Lang Freer and American Art', Apollo, vol. 118, no. 258, August 1983, new series, pp. 168-79, pp. 168, 170, fig. 1.
  • Curry, David Park, 'Whistler and Decoration', Antiques, vol. 126, no. 5, November 1984, pp. 1186-99, pl. 11.
  • Winter, John, and Elisabeth West FitzHugh, 'Some Technical Notes on Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Studies in Conservation, vol. 30, 1985, pp. 149-54, fig. 1.
  • Duval, M. Susan, 'F. R. Leyland: A Maecenas from Liverpool', Apollo, vol. 124, August 1986, pp. 110-15, at p. 115.
  • Howard, Michael, The History and Techniques of the Great Masters: Whistler, New Jersey, 1989, p. 11.
  • Macleod, Dianne Sachko, 'Art Collecting and Victorian Middle-Class Taste', Art History, 1987, vol. 10, pp. 328-50, at p. 342.
  • Samet, Wendy, Joyce Hill Stoner, and Richard Wolbers, 'Approaching the Cleaning of Whistler’s Peacock Room: Retrieving Surface Interrelationships in “Harmony in Blue and Gold” ', Studies in Conservation, vol. 35, supp. 1, 1990, pp. 6-12.
  • Savage, Kirk, ' “A forcible piece of weird decoration”: Whistler and the Gold Scab', Smithsonian Studies in American Art, vol. 4, Spring 1990, pp. 41-53.
  • Baker, Kenneth, 'Polishing the Peacock Room', Architectural Digest (Los Angeles), vol. 50, March 1993, pp. 26-32.
  • Merrill, Linda, 'Whistler’s Peacock Room Revisited', Magazine Antiques, New York, vol. 143, June 1993, pp. 894-901.
  • Merrill, Linda, 'Whistler and the “Lange Lijzen” ', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 136, October 1994, pp. 683-90, figs. 30-31.
  • Denker, Eric, 'Japanese prints and Western Art', Phillips Collection Quarterly, Washington DC, 2005.

Websites

  • 'Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room', Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.61.
  • Google Art Project website at https://www.google.com.
  • British History Online: Princes Gate and Princes Gardens, website at http://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • 'The Story of the Beautiful, Freer, Whistler, and their points of contact, Wayne University, 2013, website at http://www.peacockroom.wayne.edu.
  • Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined, Victoria and Albert Museum website, 2020, at https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/filthy-lucre.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 488).

Other

  • Becker, Eugene Matthew, Whistler and the Aesthetic Movement, Ph.D, Princeton University, 1959, p. 93, pl. 37.
  • Goebel, Catherine Carter, Arrangement in Black and White: the Making of a Whistler Legend, PhD thesis, 2 vols, Evanston, Northwestern University, 1988, pp. 82-139, 837-62.
  • Mills, Cynthia, Lee Glazer, and Amelia Goerlitz, East-West interchanges in American art: a long and tumultuous relationship, papers from the symposium, Smithsonian American art museum, Washington, DC, 2012.
  • Spencer, Robin, 'Whistler and Japan: Work in Progress', in: Society for the Study of Japonisme (ed.), Japonisme in Art: An International Symposium, Tokyo, 1980, pp. 57-81, at pp. 71-72.
  • Weber, Susan, 'Whistler as Collector, Interior Colorist and Decorator', MHPA Thesis, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, 1987, pp. 39-57.

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