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. 106), plate 105, as 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 428-39, 454, 468, 545-46, 548-51).

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 2) as 'Portrait, "Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink" '.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., Manchester Examiner and Times, Manchester, 8 June 1874.
• Anon., 'Exhibition of Pictures', The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 8 June 1874, p. 5.
• Anon., The Hour, London, 9 June 1874.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pictures', York Herald, York, 9 June 1874, p. 6.
• Anon., Illustrated London News, London, 13 June 1874, pp. 19-20.
• Anon., 'Exhibition of Mr. Whistler's Paintings and Drawings', Globe, London, 20 June 1874, p. 2.
• Anon., Evening Standard, London, 24 June 1874.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., Illustrated Review, 17 June 1874, p. 391.
• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', The Builder, 5 July 1874.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Paintings and Drawings', The Art Journal, June 1874, p. 230.

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.
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 166-67, repr. pp. 165-66.
• Galassi, Susan, 'Whistler and Aesthetic Dress: Mrs Frances Leyland', in: MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 92-115, also pp. 48, 51, 68, 71, 138, 153, 220, repr. fig. 91.
• Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986, pp. 275-77.
• Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 279, 377.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 175, repr. f.p. 176.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 101-05.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 149, 195, 209, 211, 213, 286.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 43).
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 121-22, 132.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 29.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, drawing repr. f.p. 90.

Books, General

• Bailey, Colin, Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House And Its Collections, New York, 2006, p. 65.
• Doughty, Oswald & John Robert Wahl, eds, Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oxford, 1967, vol. 3, p. 1307.
• Fredeman, William Evan, and ‎Roger C. Lewis (eds), The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 6, 1873-1874, Cambridge, 2002 (originally published 2006), p. 523.
• Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York, 1996.
• Spencer, Robin, 'Whistler's First One-Man Exhibition Reconstructed' in: Gabriel P. Weisberg, Laurinda S. Dixon, and Antje Bultmann Lemke (eds), The Documented Image: Visions in Art History, Syracuse, New York, 1987, pp. 27-49.
• Wahl, Kimberley, Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an age of reform, Durham, NH, 2013.
• Nine letters to Th. Watts-Dunton from J. McN. Whistler, London, 1922, pp. 17-18.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Koss, Elaine (ed.), The Frick Collection: handbook of paintings, New York, 2004, p. 163.
• 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, pp. 21-2 (drawings listed 98.24, 05.156-57, 08.195-97).
• The Frick Collection (ed.), Paintings: American, British, Dutch, Flemish and German,, vol. 1, Princeton, 1968, pp. 10-13.

EXHIBITION:

• Anon., The Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana shown in Division of Prints, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1921, p. 103 (not exhibited).
• Stoner, Joyce Hill, 'Materials for Immateriality', 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. 91-109, at pp. 94-95; (not exhibited).
• Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in The Frick Collection, 2009, website at http://www.frick.org.
• Calloway, Stephen, and Lynn Federle Orr (eds), The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

• Abbott, K. (ed.) and Whistler, Anna McNeill, 'The Lady of the Portrait, Letters of Whistler’s Mother', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 136, 1925, pp. 310-28, at pp. 326-27.
• Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 'James McNeill Whistler', Renaissance Latine, vol. 4, no. 6, 15 June 1905, pp. 353-78, at p. 358.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler: The Painting of the “Mother” ', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 85, February 1975, pp. 73-88, at pp. 76, 80.
• Nakanishi, Branka, 'A Symphony Reexamined: An Unpublished Study for Whistler's Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland', Museum Studies, Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 156-67, 189-91.
• Richardson, Edgar P., 'Sophisticates and Innocents Abroad', Art News, vol. 53, April 1954, pp. 20-23, 61-62, at p. 22.

Websites

• 'Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland', The Frick Collection website at http://collections.frick.org.
• 'The Frick Collection', website at http://www.frick.org.
• Calvert, Robyne, 'Thank you, Mrs Leyland', Artistic Dress: Transgressive Fashion in the Victorian Era, 7 April 2012, blog at https://artisticdress.wordpress.com/2012/04/07.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 120).

Other

• Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.
• Stephanie L. Strother, 'Cat. 14 Study for “Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth” (recto), c. 1872: Curatorial Entry,' in Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 14).