Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 808) as 'The Storm – Sunset'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 28) as 'The Storm – Sunset'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels', Daily News, London, 31 January 1881, p. 2.
• Anon., 'Art: Venice Pastels', The Observer, London, 6 February 1881, supplement p. 1.
• 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels', The Times, London, 9 February 1881, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

• 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pan, 5 February 1881.
• Whitehall Review, 5 February 1881.
• 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pictorial World, 5 February 1881.
• 'Mr. Whistler's 'Venice Pastels', The Queen, 12 February 1881, p. 171.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

• Cabanne, Pierre, Whistler, Bergamo, 1985, and London, 1985, p. 89, repr.
• Getscher, Robert Harold, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels, New York, 1991, pp. 26, 100-01, 178, 181, 186, no. 31.
• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 117, repr. fig. 140.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 54, repr. pl. 60.
• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. f.p. 18.
• Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, pp. 176-77.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, no. 90, p. 193, repr. plate 90.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 93.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 52, repr. f.p. 52.

Books, General

• Lovell, Margaretta M., A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915, Chicago and London, 1989, p. 55, fig. 60.
• Monnier, Geneviève, Pastels: From the 16th to the 20th Century, New York, NY, 1984, pp. 53 and 55.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Gillerman, Dorothy W. (ed), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 244.
• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992, p. 418.
• Wolohojian, Stephan (ed.), A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p. 466, fig. 198.
• Wolohojian, Stephan, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2003, p. 482, fig. 1.
• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2006, checklist.
• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 416-19 (cat. no. 446), repr. p. 418.
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 2006.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.