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

 

Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea

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. 105), plate 108, as 'Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 27). Reprinted in Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, p. 317.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 7th Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, Dudley Gallery, London, 1873 (cat. no. 193) as 'Variations in Pink and Gray'.
  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 27) as 'Pink and Grey, Chelsea'.
  • The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, MCMI. The Seventy-fifth, Edinburgh, 1901 (cat. no. 346) as 'Pink and Grey, Chelsea'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 57).

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • 'The Dudley Gallery', The Times, London, 17 November 1873, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, Banffshire Journal and General Advertiser, Banff, 19 February 1901.

Journals 1855-1905

  • 'Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, Dudley Gallery', The Athenaeum, London, 1 November 1873, pp. 567-68, at p. 567.
  • Sizeranne, Robert de la, 'Whistler, Ruskin, et l'Impressionnisme', La Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, vol. 14, December 1903, pp. 433-50, repr. p. 435 as 'Gris et Rose, Chelsea'.

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. 57).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 121, plate 24.
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 156, 198, 200-01, 415 n.104.
  • Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986, p. 191, J. 101.
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 219, repr. p. 218.
  • Holden, Donald, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes, New York, 1969, p. 33, pl. 6.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 186-87, 214.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 63.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 59).
  • Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 74-75.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 129.

Books, General

  • McConkey, Kenneth, Edwardian Portraits: Images of an Age of Opulence, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, p. 242.

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 (02.249).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984 (pl. no. 24).

EXHIBITION:

  • Montross Gallery, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 19).
  • 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. 38).

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • 'A River runs through it', The Economist, Washington, DC., 10 May 2014, website at http://www.economist.com.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://www.si.edu/object/fsg_F1902.249a-b.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 50) 'Variations in pink and grey, Chelsea / Pink and grey, Chelsea / Chelsea Embankment.'

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 16th December 2020 by Margaret