Catalogues Raisonnés
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Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 46), plate 15, as 'Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach'.
Authored by Whistler
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Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 36) as 'Grey and Silver. Old Battersea Reach'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
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99th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1867 (cat. no. 243) as 'Battersea'.
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Exposition Universelle de 1867, Paris, France, Palais Royal: Galerie d'Orleans.
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Retrospective Exhibition, College for Working Men and Women, London, 1889 (no catalogue).
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Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 36) as 'Grey and Silver. Old Battersea Reach'.
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1901:
70th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1901 (cat. no. 106) as 'Battersea'.
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Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 1904 (cat. no. 70) as 'The Thames'.
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Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 58) as 'On the Thames'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Fine Arts', Illustrated Times, London, 11 May 1867, p. 11.
- Anon., [review of Royal Academy], Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette, 14 May 1867, pp. 4-5.
- Anon., 'The Exhibition at the Royal Academy: Second Notice,' Manchester Guardian, 21 May 1867, p. 5.
- Anon., Illustrated London News, London, 1 June 1867, p. 22.
- Anon., The Echo, London, 20 May 1889.
Journals 1855-1905
- 'The Royal Academy,' Art Journal, June 1867, p. 143.
- Stephens, F. G., 'Fine Arts. Royal Academy', The Athenaeum, 18 May 1867.
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Rossetti, William Michael (ed.), Rossetti Papers, 1862-1870, London, 1903, p. 228.
Monographs
Books on Whistler
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Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 167 (cat. no. 70).
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Lane, James W., Whistler, (American Artists Series), New York, 1942, pp. 35, 60.
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McMullen, Roy, Victorian Outsider: a Biography of J. A. M. Whistler, London, 1974, pp. 115-16, 275.
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Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, p. 57, no. 90.
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Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 78-79, 144.
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Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. nos. 12, 27 and 105).
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Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 54-55.
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Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, pp. 41-42.
Books, General
- Barter, Judith A., et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011 (cat. no. 10).
- Shapley, John, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists, 4 vols., 1934; repr. New
York: Arno Press, 1970, pp. 182-220.
Catalogues 1906-Present
EXHIBITION:
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Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, 1921, repr. p. 159.
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Summer Exhibition: Sea and Land and City Streets, Chicago, The University of Chicago
Renaissance Society, Wieboldt Hall, 1933 (cat. no. 7).
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A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago,
1934 (cat. no. 423).
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Exhibition of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings, San
Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1935 (cat. no. 242),
repr.
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The Main Currents in the Development of American Painting: Inaugural Exhibition of the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1936 (cat. no. 50),
repr.
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Summer Exhibitions, Art Institute of Chicago, 1939 (cat. no. 3).
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Survey of American Painting, Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine
Arts, 1940.
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Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1954 (cat. no. 95).
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Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 8).
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Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1968, pp. 54-55 (cat. no. 4) as 'Grey and Silver Battersea Reach'.
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Whistler: Prints and Paintings, Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
- Jean Devoisins, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée, Albi, France, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980 (cat. no. 57), p. 65, repr., as 'Gris et argent: Old Battersea Reach'.
- Warner, Malcolm, The Image of London: Views by Travellers and Emigrés, 1550-1920, Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat. no. 158), p. 153, repr.
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Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1998-1999.
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Lochnan, Katharine, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005 (cat. no. 33), repr. p. 123.
- MacDonald, Margaret, 'Whistler and the Thames', in MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014, p. 23 (cat. no. 27).
Journals 1906-Present
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Anon., 'Summer at the Institute', Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 15, September/October 1921, pp. 158-59, at p. 159.
Websites
- Art Institute of Chicago website (acc. 2019).
- Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website.
- Strother, Stephanie L., 'Cat. 7 Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach, 1863: Curatorial Entry,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.
- Muir, Kimberley, 'Cat. 7 Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach, 1863: Technical Summary,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.
Unpublished
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Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. nos. 52, 54) 'Battersea'.
Other
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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: 5th June 2021 by Margaret