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

 

Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans

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. 183), plates 149, 405-06, as 'Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1886 (cat. no. 1412) as 'Effie Deans'.
  • Tentoonstelling van Kunstwerken van Levende Meesters, Amsterdam, 1889 (470) as 'Effie Deans'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Megilp', [review], Bailie, Glasgow, vol. 28, 12 May 1886, p. 11.
  • Anon., 'The Edinburgh International Pictures', Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 16 August 1886, p. 8.
  • Anon., New York Tribune, New York, 31 July 1888.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

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. 497).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 398 n.17.
  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, repr. p. 157.
  • Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 30, 31, 33, 41.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 135.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 201; vol. 2, pp. 88-89, 281.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 276-77.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 163, 245, 247.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 286, 484.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 149.

Books, General

  • Bunnig, Caroline, Judikje Kiers et al., Een eeuw apart : het Rijksmuseum en de Nederlandse schilderkunst in de 19de eeuw, Amsterdam, 1993, p. 15.
  • Heijbroek, Jan Frederik, Ester L. Wouthuysen, Portret van een kunsthandel: de firma Van Wisselingh en zijn compagnons 1838-heden, Amsterdam, 1999, p. 35.
  • Stolwijk, Chris, Uit de schilderswereld: Nederlandse kunstschilders in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw, Leiden, 1998, p. 346.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 41).
  • Hamlyn, Robin, Viktorianische Malerei: von Turner bis Whistler, Munich, 1993 (cat. no. 109).
  • 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, pp. 140, 213 (cat. nos. 64-65).
  • Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 29-31, 61.
  • Fowle, Frances, and Vivien Hamilton, Impressionism and Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2008, p. 51.
  • 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. 41, 49-50, pl. 5.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Heijbroek, J. F., 'Holland van het water: de bezoeken van James Abbott McNeill Whistler aan Nederland', Bulletin Rijksmuseum, 1988, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 225-56.
  • Heijbroek, Jan Frederik, Herbert Henkels, 'Het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst van Willem Steenhoff. Werkelijkheid of utopie?', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 1991, vol. 39, pp. 163-249.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Maud Franklin', in: Ruth Fine (ed.), James McNeill Whistler: A Reexamination, Studies in the History of Art, vol. 19, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 13-26.
  • Spring, Marika, Helen Howard et al., eds., Studying old master paintings: technology and practice: the National Gallery Technical Bulletin 30th anniversary conference postprints, London, 2011.

Websites

  • Rijksmuseum website at https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-1902.
  • 'Reinhard Boelens van Lynden', RKD website, at https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/445324.
  • Hermens, Erma, and Arie Wallert, 'James McNeill Whistler: fluidity, finish and experiment', Studying Old Master Paintings - Technology and Practice, The National Gallery Technical Bulletin 30th Anniversary Conference at National Gallery, London, 2009, website at researchgate.net.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 141).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 10th November 2020 by Margaret