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. 223), plate 140, as 'Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 64th Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1887 (cat. no. 25) 'Note in Black' or (cat. no. 155) 'Note in black: Reading'.
• Catalogue of Exhibition of Oil Paintings, 1891-1892, St Botolph Club, Boston, 1891 (cat. 35), no title given.
• Possibly Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of the Society of American Artists, New York, 1897 (cat. no. 107) as ‘Girl Reading’.
• Copley Society (ed.), Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels & Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 17) as 'Girl in Black'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., Sunday Times, London, 15 April 1887.
• Anon., 'The Pictures of the Season', Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool, 30 June 1887, p. 5.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• None.

Books, General

• Spassky, Natalie, with Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh, American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845, pp. 394-96.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• On loan to Yale Museum of Fine Arts, 1946-1952.
• On loan to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1952-1967.
• Drawings, Watercolors, Prints and Paintings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972 (no catalogue).
• Drawings, Watercolors, Prints and Paintings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Albany Institute of History and Art, 1974 (no catalogue).

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York website at https://metmuseum.org.
• Lithograph, Reading, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC website at https://www.nga.gov.
• Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America website at https://research.frick.org/directory.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. nos. 182-3).

Other

• Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.