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

 

Grey and Silver – Liverpool

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 913) as 'Grey and Silver – Liverpool'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 or 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886.
  • Probably Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 198) as 'Gris et or: Liverpool'.
  • Probably III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 39) as 'Stimmung in Grau: Liverpool'.
  • “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 11) as 'Grey and Silver – Liverpool'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 98) as 'Grey and Silver. The Mersey'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 107) as 'Grey and Silver. The Mersey'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 61) as 'Grey and Silver. The Mersey'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • The Epoch, New York, 8 March 1889.
  • The Sun, New York, 10 March 1889.
  • Evening Sun, New York, 16 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. 14, 179, pl. 96.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, 'Charles Lang Freer and American Art', Apollo, vol. 118, no. 258, August 1983, new series, pp. 168-79, fig. 5.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1889.3a-c.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret