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

 

Grey and silver - Purfleet

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 883) as 'Grey and silver – Purfleet'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 5) as 'Grey and silver – Purfleet'.
  • Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures & Photography: A Loan Collection of Pictures by Mr Whistler ..., Dublin Sketching Club, Dublin, 1884 (cat. no. 256).
  • III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 27).
  • “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 5) as 'Grey and Silver – Purflect [sic]'
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 86) as 'The Thames near Erith'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Messrs Dowdeswell's Gallery', The Morning Post , London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', The Standard, London, 19 May 1884, p. 2.
  • The Epoch, New York, 8 March 1889.
  • Home Journal, New York, 15 March 1889.

Books on Whistler

  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 185, pl. 107.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 185, pl. 107.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.117a-c, as 'Grey and Silver–Purfleet'.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Last updated: 1st April 2021 by Margaret