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

 

Harmony in Black: Portrait of Miss Ethel Philip

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. 419), as 'Harmony in Black: Portrait of Miss Ethel Philip', plates 257, 430.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • None.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 193.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 129.

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • None.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Carnegie Magazine, vol. 62, 1995, p. 20.
  • Thorp, Nigel, 'Studies in Black and White: Whistler’s Photographs in Glasgow University Library', in: Ruth Fine (ed.), James McNeill Whistler: A Reexamination, Studies in the History of Art, vol. 19, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 85-100, at pp. 87, 92.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41059.
  • Art UK website at http://artuk.org.
  • 'Harmony in Black', Albumen print, University of Glasgow, University Collections at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 206).

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

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret