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

 

Long Venice (Little Venice; in turquoise)

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 748) as 'Long Venice' and (cat. no. 823) as 'Little Venice; in turquoise'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 16) as 'Little Venice; in turquoise'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 152) as 'Long Venice'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels', Daily News, London, 31 January 1881, p. 2.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 143, repr. pl. 178, view repr. pl. 179.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 57.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, sketch by Way repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Anon., 'Superb Collection of Thirty-four Works by James McNeill Whistler', Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1911, pp. 33-38, repr. p. 35.

SALE:

  • Lehman et al. sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 May 1940 (lot 252).
  • Harris Auction Galleries, Baltimore, 29 June 1976.

Last updated: 14th June 2021 by Margaret