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

 

Nocturne: Grey and Silver

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. 156), plate 88, as 'Nocturne: Grey and Silver'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly 12th Exhibition, Society of French Artists, Deschamps Gallery, London, 1876 (cat. no. 56) as 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold'.
  • Probably Second Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1897 (cat. no. 238) as 'Westminster Palace in Fog'.
  • Probably A Loan Exhibition of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1902 (cat. no. 149) as 'Nocturne'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 59) as 'Nocturne—"Westminster" '.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Geffroy, Gustave, 'James MacNeill Whistler', La Justice, 1 July 1891
  • Geffroy, Gustave, 'Whistler', Le Gaulois, Paris, 4 November 1891.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Geffroy, Gustave, 'James MacNeill Whistler', L'Art dans les Deux Mondes, vol. 2, no. 32, 27 June 1891, pp. 63-65.

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 (cat. no. 59).
  • Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, no. 16, pp. 93-95.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 124 ).
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, repr. pl. 79.

Books, General

  • Corbett, David Peters, The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England, 1848-1914, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, pl. 43.
  • Flint, Kate, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 304, pl. 66.
  • Moore, George, Modern Painting, London, 1893, pp. 22-3.
  • Mireur, H., Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les X V II me et X IX me siècles, 9 vols., Paris, 1901-12, in 1912, p. 501.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • 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 (cat. no. 50).
  • Warner, Malcolm, ‎Anne Helmreich, ‎and Charles Brock, The Victorians: British painting, 1837-1901, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996 (cat. no. 30).
  • Simpson, Marc, 'Whistler, Modernism, and the Creative Afflatus', in Simpson, Marc, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2008, pp. 24-51, at pp. 31-32, 34, repr. p. 33.
  • Lochnan, Katharine, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005 (cat. no. 49).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Newton, Joy, and Margaret F. MacDonald, 'Whistler: Search for a European Reputation', Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 41, 1978, pp. 148-59, at pp. 158-59.

Websites

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art website at http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/101799.html.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 76) 'Westminster Palace, nocturne / Nocturne in grey and gold.'

Other

  • Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.

Last updated: 1st January 2021 by Margaret