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

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Nocturne in Black and Gold: Entrance to Southampton Water

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. 179), plate 95 as 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: Entrance to Southampton Water'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly 12th Exhibition, Society of French Artists, Deschamps Gallery, London, 1876 (cat. no. 150) as 'Nocturne, in Black and gold'.
  • VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 106) as 'Nocturne in Black and Gold. Entrance to Southampton water'.
  • Probably Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 32) as 'Nocturne. Black and Gold'.
  • Second Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1897 (cat. no. 237) as 'Southampton Harbor'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 101) as 'Southampton – Nocturne'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'In the Studios', London Daily News, London, 29 March 1882, pp. 5-6.
  • Anon., 'Grosvenor Gallery', Globe, London, 1 May 1882, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Sheffield Independent, Sheffield, 1 May 1882, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Bradford Observer, Bradford, 1 May 1882, pp. 3-4, at p. 4.
  • Anon., 'London Day by Day', Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 19 March 1892, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Works', The Graphic, London, 26 March 1892, p. 26.

Journals 1855-1905

  • The Athenaeum, 6 May 1882, p. 576.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, nos. 28, 30, 31, 34, pp. 111-12, 115-16, 119-20.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 518, 636.

Books, General

  • Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, p. 46.
  • Marchant, Wm. and Co., A Reply to an Attack Made by One of Whistler's Biographers on a Pupil of Whistler, Mr Walter Greaves and his Work, London, 1911, pp. 20-21.
  • Prettejohn, Elizabeth, Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 1780.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 97-98.
  • Ward, Edwin A., Recollections of a Savage, London, 1923, pp. 263-65.

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 (97.21).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 124, 293, plate 27.

EXHIBITION:

  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 26, 106-07 (not in exhibition).
  • Siewert, John, 'Art, music, and an aesthetics of place in Whistler's Nocturne paintings' in Lochnan, Katharine, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005, pp. 141-47, at p. 144, fig. 52 (not in exhibition).

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • Heinemann, William, 'Whistler and Mr Greaves', The Times, London, 26 May 1911, p. 15.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://www.si.edu/object/fsg_F1897.21a-b.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 389).

Other

  • Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.

Last updated: 6th February 2021 by Margaret