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. 111) as 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland', plates 391-394.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995, drawings, cat. nos. 516-521.
• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk (G.137).

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• None.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., The Studio Whistler Portfolio, London, 1905 (ten colour reproductions), drawing repr. pl. 8.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, drawings repr. pp. 53, 198.
• Lane, James W., Whistler, (American Artists Series), New York, 1942, 'Yellow and Blue' (right-hand panel) repr. p. 76.
• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, p. 75.
• Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 127, 138-139, 141-142, 209, 266, fig. 6.21.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 175-176, 258, drawings repr. f.p. 174.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 124, 186.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 134.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 46, drawing repr. f.p. 46.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 30, 135-136, 139.

Books, General

• Brinton, Christian, Walter Greaves (Pupil of Whistler), New York, 1912, p. 58.

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 (07.180-181).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 250.

EXHIBITION:

• Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (drawing, cat. no. 82).
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Whistler. The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice, Agnew and Sons, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; City Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1976 (drawings, cat. nos. 69-74)

Journals 1906-Present

• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler's Designs for a Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain', Connoisseur, vol. 198, August 1975, pp. 290-95, 'Purple and Blue' (left-hand panel) repr. p. 291.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1907.180a-c, and website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1907.181a-c.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. nos. 124, 451-452).

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.