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

 

Grey and Silver: La Petite Souris

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. 502), plate 350, as 'Grey and Silver: La Petite Souris'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Exhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 (cat. no. 176) as 'Grey and Silver – La Petite Souris', repr.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 27).
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 41) as 'Grey and Silver – La petite Souris'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Sauter, G., ‘The International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers’, The Studio, vol. 14, July 1898, pp. 109-20, at pp. 110-111, repr. f.p. 110.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Bell, Nancy R. E., James McNeill Whistler, London, 1904, p. 43.
  • D'Anvers, N., James McNeill Whistler, 1904, p. 43.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, repr. f. p. 150.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 166 (cat. no. 114).
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 134.

Books, General

  • Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 435.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Paintings in oil and pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 46) as 'Gray and Silver: La Petite Souris'.
  • 31st Exhibition, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Burlington House, London, 1922.
  • James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1936 (cat. no. 32).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Baill, James Thomas Herbert, 'Royal Society of Portrait Painters', The Connoisseur, vol. 62, p. 46.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'What is a Whistler?', in Lee Glazer, et al (eds), James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essays from the Whistler Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003, Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers, New Series, vol. 2, Washington, DC, 2008, p. 3.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • Anon., 'At the Galleries', Globe, London, 5 June 1915, p. 7.
  • Anon., 'Art and Artists. A Whistler Exhibition', The Observer, London, 6 June 1915.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41085.
  • Art UK website at artuk.org.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 241).

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.

Last updated: 24th March 2021 by Margaret