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

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Violet and amber - Tea

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 897) as 'Violet and amber – Tea'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 35) as 'Violet and amber – Tea'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 205) as 'Petit Déjeuner – Note in Opal'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Gallery', Daily News, London, 21 May 1884, p. 7.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 173 (cat. no. 102).
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 196, pl. 126.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 65 (cat. no. 39).

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.162a-c, as 'Violet and Amber–Tea'.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Last updated: 8th February 2021 by Margaret