Catalogues Raisonnés
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Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 98), plate 45, as 'Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames'.
Authored by Whistler
Catalogues 1855-1905
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Fifth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists [Winter Exhibition], Deschamps Gallery, London, 1872 (cat. no. 122) as 'Harmony in Grey'.
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Fourth Exhibition, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Regent Street, London, 1904 (cat. no. 152a) as 'Symphony in Grey' (listed only in 4th edition of cat.).
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Comparative exhibition of native and foreign art, Society of Art Collectors, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 179) as 'Symphony in Grey – Early Morning – Thames'.
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The Inaugural Loan Collection of Paintings, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 1905 (cat. no. 166) as 'Symphony in Grey – Early Morning, Thames' (repr.).
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Winter Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, 168, New Bond Street', Morning Advertiser, London, 5 November 1872, p. 6.
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Anon., 'Winter Exhibition of the Society of French Artists', The Athenaeum, 16 November 1872, pp. 639-40.
- Anon., 'Fine Arts. The Society of French Artists', Illustrated London News, London, 23 November 1872, pp. 20-21, at p. 21.
Journals 1855-1905
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Matsuki, Bunkio (ed.), 'The Influences that Shaped Whistler's Art', Lotus, vol. 1, no. 1, (Special Holiday Number in Memoriam: James A. McNeill Whistler), December 1903, pp. 38-40.
Monographs
Books on Whistler
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Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 (cat. no. 504).
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Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 212, 214, 305, 308, repr. p. 214.
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Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in 'Whistler v. Ruskin', Washington and London, 1992, pp. 50-51.
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Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 226.
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Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 297-99.
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Singletary, Suzanne M., James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music, London and New York, 2017, p. 141.
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Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 126.
Books, General
- Lago, Mary, Lady Christiana Jane Powell, Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene, London, 1996, p. 127.
Catalogues 1906-Present
COLLECTION:
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Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 120, 292-93, pl. 23.
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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. 15 (04.50).
EXHIBITION:
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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 (cat. no. 63).
Journals 1906-Present
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Abbott, K. (ed.) and Whistler, Anna McNeill, 'The Lady of the Portrait, Letters of Whistler’s Mother', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 136, 1925, pp. 310-28, p. 325.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://www.si.edu/object/fsg_F1904.50a-b.
Unpublished
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Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 60) 'Symphony in grey: Early Morning, Thames'.
Other
Last updated: 31st December 2020 by Margaret