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

 

Study for Three Decorative Panels Representing 'The Landing of Columbus', 'Queen Isabel la Católica of Spain' and 'Queen Elizabeth of England’

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 396), plate 270, as "Study for Three Decorative Panels Representing 'The Landing of Columbus', 'Queen Isabel la Católica of Spain' and 'Queen Elizabeth of England' ".
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1356).

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Taynton, Carol (intro.), Whistler in New England Collections, [checklist], Boston, 1977 (no cat. number).

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • 'Whistler and the Boston Library, From The Boston Transcript', New York Times, New York, 28 September 1895, p. 3.

Journals 1855-1905

  • 'The New Public Library at Boston, U.S.A.', Art Journal, New York, vol. 55, April 1893, pp. 126-27.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, pp. 200-02.
  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 316.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 150; vol. 2, p. 132.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 34, 142.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 285.

Books, General

  • Blanche, Jacques-Émile, Portraits of a Lifetime: The Late Victorian Era, the Edwardian Pageant, 1870-1914, W. Clement (trans. and ed.), London, 1937, p. 76.
  • Whitehill, Walter M., Boston Public Library, Cambridge, MA, 1956, pp. 149, 158-59.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 108 (not in exhibition).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 'James McNeill Whistler', Renaissance Latine, vol. 4, no. 6, 15 June 1905, pp. 353-78, at p. 359.
  • Curry, David Park, 'Whistler and Decoration', Antiques, vol. 126, no. 5, November 1984, pp. 1186-99.
  • Whitehill, Walter M., ‘The Making of an Architectural Masterpiece - The Boston Public Library’, American Art Journal, vol. 2, Fall 1970, pp. 13-35, at pp. 22-24, repr. p. 25, fig. 9, Bates Hall repr. fig. 8.

Websites

  • Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online website at https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3r076n79q

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 632).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 4th June 2021 by Margaret