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

 

Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach

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. 119), plate 75, as 'Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 17).
  • Goupil Gallery and James McNeill Whistler, Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces [portfolio of photographs published after the Goupil Gallery Exhibition, March-April 1892], London, 1892, repr. pl. 15.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly 6th Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, Dudley Gallery, London, 1872 (cat. no. 237) as 'Nocturne, in Blue and Silver'.
  • Possibly Second Annual Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Colour, Royal Pavilion Gallery, Brighton, 1875 (cat. no. 98) as 'Nocturne in blue and gold', priced at £420.
  • Possibly II Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1878 (cat. no. 56) as 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold'.
  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 17) as 'Nocturne. Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach'.
  • Spring Exhibition of pictures, and objects of Art, Goupil Gallery, London, 1899 (cat. no. 31).
  • Comparative exhibition of native and foreign art, Society of Art Collectors, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 177) as 'Nocturne – Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 63) as 'Nocturne – Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach'.
  • 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 70) as 'Nocturne. Bleu et argent. Battersea. – (Nocturne. Blue and Silver. Battersea Beach. [sic])'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Dudley Gallery', Globe, London, 25 October 1872, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'The Dudley Gallery', The Echo, 26 October 1872, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'Fine Arts: Winter Exhibition at the Dudley Gallery', The Illustrated London News, London, 2 November 1872, p. 419.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Leeds, 14 May 1878, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'The Goupil Gallery', Morning Post, London, 10 March 1899, p. 7.
  • Anon., 'Art Exhibitions', Daily Telegraph and Courier, London, 14 March 1899, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'The Goupil Gallery', St James's Gazette, London, 17 March 1899, pp. 4-5.
  • Anon., 'Pictures at the Goupil Gallery', The Queen, London, 1 April 1899, pp. 21-22.

Journals 1855-1905

  • MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, 'Mr Whistler’s Paintings in Oil', The Art Journal, 1893, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 91.
  • Alexandre, Arsène, 'J. McNeill Whistler', Les Arts, October 1903, pp. 22-32, repr. p. 30.
  • Matsuki, Bunkio (ed.), 'Whistler Memorial Exhibition', Lotus, vol. 1, no. 1, (Special Holiday Number in Memoriam: James A. McNeill Whistler), December 1903, pp. 7-9, at p. 9.
  • Anon., ‘Дж. УистлерЪ [Dzh. Uistler]’, Мир искусства [Mir Iskusstva, 'World of Art'], vol. 9, 1903, pp. 61-68, repr. p. 64.
  • Comparative Exhibition of Native and Foreign Art, Society of Art Collectors, The American Fine Arts Society, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 177) 'Nocturne – Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach'.

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, p. 166 (cat. no. 63).
  • Hartmann, Sadakichi C. (pseudonym of Sidney Allen), The Whistler Book: A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works, Boston, 1910, p. 265.
  • Holden, Donald, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes, New York, 1969, p. 37, pl. 8.
  • Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, p. 36.
  • Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, pp. 64, 214, repr. pl. 16.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 214.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 162 (cat. no. 80).
  • Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, p. 144.
  • Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, pl. 51.

Books, General

  • Lamont, L. M., (ed.), Thomas Armstrong, C. B.: A Memoir, London, 1912, p. 200.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • 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 (02.97).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 122, 293, pl. 25.

EXHIBITION:

  • 75th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1906 (cat. no. 446) as 'Nocturne: Blue and Silver, Battersea Reach'.
  • Paintings in oil and pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 16).
  • Selection of Art Objects from The Freer Collection, National Museum, Washington, DC, 1912 (cat. no. 24).
  • 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. 64) shown in Washington only.

Journals 1906-Present

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.97a-b.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 67) 'Nocturne, blue and silver: Battersea Reach'.

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret