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. 156), plate 88, as 'Nocturne: Grey and Silver'.
Authored by Whistler
Catalogues 1855-1905
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12th Exhibition, Society of French Artists, Deschamps Gallery, London, 1876 (cat. no. 56) as 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold'.
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Second Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1897 (cat. no. 238) as 'Westminster Palace in Fog'.
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A Loan Exhibition of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1902 (cat. no. 149) as 'Nocturne'.
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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 (cat. no. 59) as 'Nocturne—"Westminster" '.
Newspapers 1855-1905
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Geffroy, Gustave, 'James MacNeill Whistler', La Justice, 1 July 1891
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Geffroy, Gustave, 'Whistler', Le Gaulois, Paris, 4 November 1891.
Journals 1855-1905
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Geffroy, Gustave, 'James MacNeill Whistler', L'Art dans les Deux Mondes, vol. 2, no. 32, 27 June 1891, pp. 63-65.
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 (cat. no. 59).
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Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, no. 16, pp. 93-95.
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Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 124 ).
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Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, repr. pl. 79.
Books, General
- Corbett, David Peters, The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England, 1848-1914, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, pl. 43.
- Flint, Kate, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 304, pl. 66.
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Moore, George, Modern Painting, London, 1893, pp. 22-3.
- Mireur, H., Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les X V
II me et X IX me siècles, 9 vols., Paris, 1901-12, in 1912, p. 501.
Catalogues 1906-Present
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Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 50).
- Warner, Malcolm, Anne Helmreich, and Charles Brock, The Victorians: British painting, 1837-1901, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996 (cat. no. 30).
- Simpson, Marc, 'Whistler, Modernism, and the Creative Afflatus', in Simpson, Marc, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2008, pp. 24-51, at pp. 31-32, 34, repr. p. 33.
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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. 49).
Journals 1906-Present
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Newton, Joy, and Margaret F. MacDonald, 'Whistler: Search for a European Reputation', Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 41, 1978, pp. 148-59, at pp. 158-59.
Websites
- Philadelphia Museum of Art website at http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/101799.html.
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. no. 76) 'Westminster Palace, nocturne / Nocturne in grey and gold.'
Other
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Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.
Last updated: 1st January 2021 by Margaret