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

 

Dorothy Seton - A Daughter of Eve

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. 552), plate 355, as 'Dorothy Seton – A Daughter of Eve'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 40) as ‘Dorothy Seton. A Daughter of Eve’.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Anderson, Ronald, and Ann Koval, James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, London, 1994, p. 455.
  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 190 (cat. no. 202).
  • Fleming, G. H., James Abbott McNeill Whistler. A Life, The Windrush Press, Gloucestershire, 1991, pp. 323-24.
  • McMullen, Roy, Victorian Outsider: a Biography of J. A. M. Whistler, London, 1974, pp. 267-68.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 291.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 286-87.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 169 (cat. no. 135).
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 332.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 135.
  • Walker, John, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1987, pp. 135-36, 145-46, repr.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Milan, 1963, repr. pl. 16.

Books, General

  • Schulz, Max, Paradise revisited. Recreations of Eden in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 294.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Loan Exhibition of Works by James McNeill Whistler to aid the Professional Classes War Relief Council, Messrs Colnaghi, London, 1915 (cat. no. 24) as 'A Daughter of Eve'.
  • James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1936 (cat. no. 31) as 'Dorothy Seton – A Daughter of Eve'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Ashbee, Felicity, 'Dandy in Decline: Whistler's last home', Country Life, vol. 176, 1984, pp. 1560-61, at p. 1561.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • Anon., 'Unexpected Whistlers', The Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 1 June 1915.
  • Anon., 'Art and Artists', The Observer, London, 6 June 1915.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41090.
  • ArtUK website at https://artuk.org.
  • Europeana website at https://www.europeana.eu.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 242).

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.

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret