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

 

Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers

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. 413) as 'Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers', and (cat. no. 517) as 'Study of the Sea from a Boat'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • [Exhibition], Boussod, Valadon & Cie., of the Goupil Gallery, London, at Wellington Studios, Glasgow, 1893 (catalogue untraced).
  • Fair Women, Grafton Galleries, London, 1894 (cat. no. 70) as 'Violet and Blue – Among the Rollers'.
  • Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champ de Mars, Paris, 1894 (cat. no. 1183).
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 13) as 'Study of the Sea from a boat'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 9 November 1893.
  • Anon., St James's Gazette, London, 6 December 1893, p. 12.
  • Anon., St James's Gazette, London, 12 December 1893, p. 4.
  • 'Our London Correspondent', Glasgow Herald, 18 December 1893, p. 7.
  • Anon., Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 20 January 1894, p. 6
  • Anon., 'The Grafton Gallery', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 23 January 1894, p. 3.

Journals 1855-1905

  • 'The Grafton Gallery Collection', The Art Journal, March 1894, pp. 88-89, at p. 89.
  • Geffroy, Gustave, 'Salon de 1894', Vie Artistique, vol. 4, 1895, pp. 140-44, at pp. 140-41.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler, Philadelphia and London, 1903, pp. 274-75.
  • Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Whistler's Art Dicta and Other Essays, Boston, 1904, f.p. 1.

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

  • Cottone Auctions, Mount Morris, 7 July 2006 (lot 127).

EXHIBITION:

  • None.

Journals 1906-Present

  • 'Detroit Institute of Arts Buys $1M Whistler Painting', Art News, 6 February 2007.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'A Rediscovered Whistler: “Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers” ’, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, 2007, pp. 261-62.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, 'Whistler the "Quintessencier: Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers" and the Importance of the Late Small Oils', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 85, no. 1-4, 2011, pp. 28-41, online.

Websites

  • Art News, 6 February 2007, website at http://www.artnews.com (acc. 2007).
  • Cottone Auctions website at https://www.cottoneauctions.com.
  • Detroit Institute of Art website at http://www.dia.org.

Unpublished

  • None.

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 12th November 2020 by Margaret