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

 

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens

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. 166), plate 92, as 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 62) as 'Nocturne in Green and Gold, The Falling Rocket'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • 'American Artists in London, What they have done for Philadelphia', New York Herald, New York, 10 April 1876, p. 5. Press cutting in GUL Whistler PC 2, p. 2.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

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, pp. 62-62, 218 (cat. no. 413).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 186.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 164 as 'Cremorne (Nocturne in Green and Gold)'.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, pp. 146-47 (cat. no. 54).
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 67.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 24.

Books, General

  • Sutton, Denys (ed.), The Letters of Roger Fry, 2 vols., London, 1972, pp. 310, 312.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Avery, Kevin J. , American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835, New York, 2002, p. 364.
  • 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 , New York, 1985, pp. 370-73 as 'Nocturne in Green and Gold.'.

EXHIBITION:

  • European Influences on American Painting of the 19th Century, Heckscher Art Museum, Huntington, Long Island, 1947 (cat. no. 7) as 'Nocturne in Green and Gold, The Falling Rocket'.
  • Grand Reserves, New York Cultural Center in association with Fairleigh Dickinson University, New York, 1974 (cat. no. 71) as 'Nocturne in Green and Gold, Cremorne Gardens, London at Night'.
  • Schwartz, M. D., 'The New Vision,' American Styles of 1876-1910, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, and Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, 1976 (unnumbered) as 'Nocturne in Green and Gold (Cremorne Gardens, London at Night)'.
  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 218, 247, repr. fig. 112 (not exhibited).
  • MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014, p. 186 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Anon., ‘Principal Accessions’, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1, June 1906, p. 105.
  • Cary, E. L., Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1, July 1906, p. 109.

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum website at https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 88) 'Nocturne in green and gold: Cremorne Gardens, at night / Nocturne in black and gold: The Gradens / Nocturne, Cremorne Gardens, No: 4 / Nocturne, Cremorne Gardens.'

Other

  • Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994, p. 13.

Last updated: 19th April 2021 by Margaret