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

 

Harmony in Blue: The Duet

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. 196), plate 132, as 'Harmony in Blue: The Duet'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • None.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • Rowe, L. E., ‘Harmony in Blue. The Duet, by James A. McNeill Whistler’, Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, vol. 2, June 1914, pp. 18-20.

Books on Whistler

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, repr. p. 9.
  • Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 100-01.
  • Watts-Dunton, Theodore, Nine Letters to Th. Watts-Dunton from J. McN. Whistler, London, 1922, p. 7.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, drawing repr. f.p. 20.

Books, General

  • Hollingshead, John, My Lifetime, 2 vols., London, 1895, vol. 2, pp. 120-21, 154-55.
  • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Selected Works, Providence, Rhode Island, 2008.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Oils, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1934 (cat. no. 8).
  • Whistler Loan Exhibition, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1947 (cat. no. 26).
  • White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 13).
  • American Impressionism, American Federation of Arts, New York, 1965.
  • Raid the icebox I with Andy Warhol, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans; Rhode Island School of design, Providence 1969-1970 (p. 52) repr.
  • Days gone by, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1971.
  • Making It In America, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2013-2014.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Rowe, L. E., ‘Harmony in Blue. The Duet, by James A. McNeill Whistler’, Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, vol. 2, June 1914, pp. 18-20.

Websites

  • Rhode Island School of design website at http://risdmuseum.org/art_design.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 316).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 12th November 2019 by Margaret