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

 

Red and black

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 934) as 'Red and black'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 61) as 'Red and black'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon, ['Cigarette'], 'Whistles', The Topical Times, London, 24 May 1884.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon. ('An Enthusiast'), 'Exhibition', Artist, June 1884.
  • Anon. ('Philistine'), 'Mr. Whistler and His Artifices', Artist and Journal of Home Culture, London, 1 July 1884.

Books on Whistler

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 146-47.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Whistler Pastels and Watercolors, Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, 1938.
  • Gillerman, Dorothy W. (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 243.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, repr. 76, p. 94.
  • Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2006, checklist.

COLLECTION:

  • 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, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 421-23 (cat. no. 448), repr. p. 421.

Websites

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

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret