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

 

Bravura in brown

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 928) as 'r: Bravura in brown, v: Piano'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 66) as 'Bravura in Brown', but see Bravura in Brown [M.0929].

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Messrs Dowdeswell's Gallery', The Morning Post, London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.

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. 196, pl. 125.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 79 (cat. no. 52).

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.167a-c.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Last updated: 7th February 2021 by Margaret