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

 

Green and Grey: The Oyster Smacks, Evening

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. 70), plate 42, as 'Trouville'.

Authored by Whistler

  • [Whistler, James McNeill, and Goupil Gallery (eds)], Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces: Small Collection Kindly Lent by Their Owners, London, 1892 (cat. no. 29) as 'Green and Grey. The Oyster Smacks – Evening'.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, p. 318.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 29) as 'Green and Grey. The Oyster Smacks – Evening'.
  • 1st World of Art Exhibition, Schtiglitz School, Saint Petersburg, 1899 (cat. no. 280) as 'Марина' [Marina, Marine].
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 12) as 'Grey and Green. Marine'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 63) as 'Grey and Green. Marine'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., Lady's Pictorial, London, 26 March 1892.

Journals 1855-1905

  • 'МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ВЫСТАВКА КАРТИНЪ ЖУРНАЛА „МIРЪ ИСКУССТВА" ' ['Exposition Internationale des Beaux Arts Organisée par La Revue "Le Monde Artiste" '], Мир искусства [Mir Iskusstva, 'World of Art'], vol. 2, no. 6, 1899, contains a list of exhibits.
  • Гюисман, И . [Huysmans, I.], 'Уистлер' [Uistler], Мир искусства [Mir Iskusstva, 'World of Art'], vol. 2, nos. 16-17, 1899, pp. 61-68, repr. p. 66.
  • Stasov, V. V., 'Podvoriye prokagennykh', [The Leper House], [1899], in Isbranniye sochineniya [Selected Works], 3 vols., Moscow, 1952, vol. 3, p. 257.

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. 157 (cat. no. 12).
  • Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986, pp. 26-27, B. 3.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: an Artistic Partnership' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 15-31.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 133-34.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 185, 533.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, no. 20, p. 153.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, pp. 51-52.

Books, General

  • Barter, Judith A. et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and New Haven, 2011, no. 12.
  • Paintings in the Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 483.
  • Rouart, Denis & Wildenstein, Daniel, Edouard Manet. Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Geneva and Paris, 1975, vol. 1, paintings by Manet repr., pp. 78-79.
  • Shapley, John, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists, 4 vols., 1934; reprinted New York, 1970, pp. 182-220.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, part 2, Paintings and Drawings, Chicago, 1922, p. 69, no. 850.
  • Guide to the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1925, p. 157.
  • Guide to the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1932, p. 176.

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Northbrook Memorial Hall, February 1939.
  • Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada, 1955 (cat. no. 22) as 'Gray and Green: The Silver Sea'.
  • Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (cat. no. 12), p. 50, repr., as 'Grey and Green: The Silver Sea'.
  • From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Wildenstein, New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971 (cat. no. 19).
  • Devoisins, Jean, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980 (cat. no. 58), p. 66, repr. as 'Gris et vert: la mer d’argent'.
  • Tinterow, Gary, and Henri Loyrette, Origins of Impressionism Paris, Galeries Nationals du Grand Palais, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 192), repr. p. 237, fig. 290.
  • Whistler: Prints and Paintings, Art Institute of Chicago, 1979 (no catalogue).
  • Wilson-Bareau, Juliet, Manet and the American Civil War, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003 (cat. no. 57), pp. 74, 83, repr. p. 76.
  • Kruglov, Vladimir, 'Whistler in Russian criticism', in Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 162-69, at p. 166 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • The Art Institute of Chicago Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees, for the Year 1922, p. 11.
  • Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 15, no. 5, September-October 1921, pp. 158-59.
  • Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 16, no. 3, May 1922, pp. 27, 47.

Websites

  • Art Institute of Chicago website at http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/81572. (acc. 2019).
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website.
  • Strother, Stephanie L., 'Cat. 9 Trouville (Grey and Green, the Silver Sea), 1865: Curatorial Entry,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.
  • Muir, Kimberley, 'Cat. 9 Trouville (Grey and Green, the Silver Sea), 1865: Technical Summary,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. nos. 381 and 440).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 14th December 2020 by Margaret