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

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The Three Girls

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. 88), plates 383-85, as 'The Three Girls'.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 358-61, 367-73, 458).

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • None.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • 'American Artists in London, What they have done for Philadelphia', New York Herald, New York, 10 April 1876, p. 5 (press cutting in GUL Whistler PC 2, p. 2).

Journals 1855-1905

  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Essays and Studies, London, 1875, p. 360.
  • Rossetti, William Michael (ed.), Rossetti Papers, 1862-1870, London, 1903, p. 320.
  • Baldry, Alfred Lys, 'James McNeill Whistler: His Art and Influence', The Studio, vol. 29, 1903, pp. 237-45, drawing repr. p. 238.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 254.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 97, 100, 102.
  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 97-98.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 147-49, 150, drawings repr. f.pp. 142, 146, 149-50, 155.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 103-05.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 134, 233.
  • Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 18-19.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 132-38.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 110-11, 117, 164.
  • Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, p. 45.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 25, 26-28, 35-36, 71.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, pp. 25, 26, 30-32, 100.

Books, General

  • Baldry, Alfred Lys, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, London, 1894, paintings by Moore repr. f.pp. 18, 32.
  • Burgard, Timothy Anglin, and Daniell Cornell (eds), Masterworks of American painting at the De Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 2005, p. 181.
  • Dayan, Peter, Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond, Farnham, 2011, p. 26.
  • Spencer, Robin, The Aesthetic Movement, London and New York, 1972, pp. 34-35.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English-Speaking Union of the United States, London and New York, 1960 (cat. no. 112).
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969, drawing repr. p. 43.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Bacher, Otto Henry, 'With Whistler in Venice 1880-86', The Century Magazine, vol. 73, no. 2, December 1906, pp. 138-43, at pp. 58-59.
  • Ferriday, Peter, 'The Peacock Room', Architectural Review, vol. 125, 1959, pp. 407-14, at p. 409.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler: The Painting of the “Mother” ', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 85, February 1975, pp. 73-88, at pp. 74-75.
  • Mahey, John A. (ed.). 'The Letters of James McNeill Whistler to George A. Lucas', Art Bulletin, vol. 49, September 1967, pp. 247-57, at p. 252.

Websites

  • The Lost Symphony: Whistler & the Perfection of Art, Freer Gallery of Art website at http://www.asia.si.edu.
  • Tate Britain website at http://www.tate.org.uk.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. nos. 258-59, 292).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 1st June 2020 by Margaret