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. 185), pl. 154, as 'Arrangement in White and Black'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• II Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1878 (cat. no. 55) as 'Arrangement in White and Black'.
• Blackburn, Henry, Grosvenor Notes, London, 1878, drawing repr. p. 20.
• II Kunstausstellung der Berliner Secession, Berlin, 1900 (cat. no. 343) as 'Damenbildniss', repr.
• Comparative exhibition of Native and Foreign Art under the auspices of the Society of Art Collectors, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 175) as 'Arrangement in Black and White No.1'.
• Sixth International Art Exhibit, Venice, 1905.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' The Times, London, 2 May 1878, p. 7.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' Evening Mail, London, 3 May 1878, p. 1.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 3 May 1878, p. 3.
• Anon., 'Metropolitan Notes', Sheffield Independent, Sheffield, 4 May 1878, p. 6.
• Anon., ['London correspondent'], 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Sheffield, 28 May 1878, p. 3.

Journals 1855-1905

• Ruskin, John, ‘Prerafaelitizm’, trans. Olga Soloveva, Mir Ishusstva, vol. 4, 1900, pp. 73-96, repr. p. 93.
• Heilbut, Emil, 'Die Sammlung Linde in Lübeck', Kunst und Künstler, vol. 2, October 1903, pp. 6-20, repr. p. 19, repr. p. 20 on wall of Dr Linde's dining room.
• Kessler, Harry Graf, 'Whistler', Kunst und Künstler: Illustrierte Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, vol. 3, August 1905, pp. 445-66, repr. p. 450.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 228 (cat. no. 496).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 111-112, fig. 3.55.
• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 34, 36-37, repr. p. 114 as 'Jeune femme dite L'Américaine'.
• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 193, repr.
• Lane, James W., Whistler, (American Artists Series), New York, 1942, repr. p. 49.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 135, 137, 146, 220, repr. fig. 126.
• Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 134, fig. 3.20.
• Pearson, Hesketh, The Man Whistler, London, 1952, pp. 87, repr. pp. 116-17.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 217-18; vol. 2, repr. f.p. 100 as 'L'Américaine (Arrangement in Black and White, No. I).
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, drawing after, repr. as 'Sketch of Maud'.
• Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel, (ed.), James McNeill Whistler,(with introduction by Joseph & Elizabeth Robins Pennell), New York, 1924, repr. pl. 48.
• Prideaux, Tom, The World of Whistler, New York, 1970, p. 100.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 159 (cat. no. 64).
• Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 98-99.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, fig. 33.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, pl. 62.

Books, General

• Denney, Colleen, At the Temple of Art: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890, Madison, NJ, 1999, pp. 115-17, 119.
• Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, p. 187, fig. 125.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• 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 (04.78).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 116, 292, repr. plate 19.

EXHIBITION:

• Selection of Art Objects from The Freer Collection, National Museum, Washington, DC, 1912 (cat. no. 20).
• University of Michigan Club, exhibition in Freer's home, Detroit, 1914 (cat. no. 15).

Journals 1906-Present

• Hobbs, Susan, 'A Connoisseur's Vision: The American Collection of Charles Lang Freer', American Art Review, vol. 4, August 1977, pp. 76-101, p. 99.
• Hobbs, Susan, 'Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art', Magazines Antiques, vol. 121, November 1981, pp. 1194-202, pl. 11.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Maud Franklin', in: Ruth Fine (ed.), James McNeill Whistler: A Reexamination, Studies in the History of Art, vol. 19, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 13-26, at pp. 18-19.
• Curry, David Park, 'Charles Lang Freer and American Art', Apollo, vol. 118, no. 258, August 1983, new series, pp. 168-79, fig. 3.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.78a-b.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 144).

Other

• Bumann, Mary A., Whistler's "White Girl" Paintings: A Development of Style 1861-1876, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986, p. 67.
• Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.