Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 454) as "r.: Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'; v.: Study for 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland' ".

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 104-105.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003, pp. 38-40, repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1998, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1998-1999, pp. 24 and 30 (cat. no. 15), fig. 5.
• Whistler’s Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2017 (no cat.).

Journals 1906-Present

• Nakanishi, Branka, 'A Symphony Reexamined: An Unpublished Study for Whistler's Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland', Museum Studies, Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 156-67, 189-91.
• Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen (eds), The Broad Spectrum: Studies in Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper, London, 2002, p. 37, fig. 1.26, repr.

Websites

• 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 (cat. no. 14).