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

 

The Yellow Room

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 881) as 'The Yellow Room'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 21) 'Harmony in violet and yellow'.
  • Loan Collection of Watercolour Drawings, Guildhall Corporation of London Art Gallery, London, 1896 (cat. no. 108) 'A Drawing'.
  • Possibly Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (ex. cat.).

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 3rd edition, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1909, p. 300.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Early Masters of Modern Art: A Local Collection, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1959 (cat. no. 55).
  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960, p. 81 (cat. no. 91).
  • New Orleans Collects: Early Masters of Modern Art, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1968 (cat. no. 31).
  • Anonymous loan to St Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Florida, 1992.
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995, p. 214 (cat. no. 131).
  • Merrill, Linda, 'Whistler in America', in: After Whistler: The Artists and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 10-31, p. 53, repr. fig. 41.
  • Calloway, Stephen, and Lynn Federle Orr (eds), The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011, p. 189, fig. 163.

SALE:

  • Christie's, New York, 23 May 2017 (lot 11).

Journals 1906-Present

  • R. Anderson, 'Whistler in Dublin,' Irish Arts Review, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn 1985, pp. 46-47.

Websites

  • 'Works by Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Whistler and other masters from The Collection of Hunt Henderson', Christie's, New York, 2017, website.
  • 'American Paintings Christie's New York 10 A.M., May 23, 2017' in 'Art/Auctions', The City Review, 2017, website at http://www.thecityreview.com (acc. 2018).
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website at https://www.metmuseum.org.

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret