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. 115), plate 110, as 'Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Cremorne Lights'.

Authored by Whistler

• Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 34) as 'Nocturne. Blue and Silver – Cremorne Lights'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly 6th Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, Dudley Gallery, London, 1872 (cat. no. 237) as 'Nocturne, in Blue and Silver'.
• Possibly [Exposition], Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1873.
• Possibly Second Annual Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Colour, Royal Pavilion Gallery, Brighton, 1875 (cat. no. 98) as 'Nocturne in blue and gold' priced at £420 (see Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach [YMSM 119], Nocturne in Blue and Gold [YMSM 141]).
• Blackburn, Henry, Grosvenor Notes, London, 1882, p. 8.
• Probably VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 2) as 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver'.
• Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 34) as 'Nocturne. Blue and Silver – Cremorne Lights'.
• [Exhibition], Boussod, Valadon & Cie., of the Goupil Gallery, London, at Wellington Studios, Glasgow, 1893.
• Possibly A Collection of Selected Works by Painters of the English, French & Dutch Schools, Goupil Gallery, London, 1898 (cat. no. 25) as 'Nocturne – Blue and Gold' (see Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Southampton Water [YMSM 117]).
• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 56) as 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver / "Cremorne Lights" '.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 69) as 'Nocturne en bleu et argent. Les lumières de Cremorne. – (Nocturne in Blue and Silver. – Cremorne Lights.)'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'The Dudley Gallery', Globe, London, 25 October 1872, p. 4.
• Anon., 'The Dudley Gallery', The Times, London, 11 November 1872, p. 4.
• Anon., 'The Society of French Artists', Pall Mall Gazette, 28 November 1872, p. 11.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Daily Telegraph, London, 1 May 1882, p. 5.
• 'L. S. D.', 12 June 1882 (unidentified press cutting in GUL Whistler PC4, p. 113).
• Anon., 'London Gossip', Nottingham Evening Post, 21 June 1882, p. 2.
• Anon., 'Literature', Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 9 November 1893, pp. 9-11.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Review of the Grosvenor Gallery], The Athenaeum, 6 May 1882, p. 576.
• Anon., 'Grosvenor Gallery', Court Journal, 6 May 1882.
• Anon., 'Fantaisie', Society, 13 May 1882, cartoon repr.

Monographs

• None.

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 (cat. no. 56).
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 229, 542, 544-45.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 73, 103).
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 275.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, pl. 64.

Books, General

• Hackney, Stephen, 'Art for Art's Sake: The Materials and Techniques of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)', in: Wallert, Arie, Erma Hermens, and Marja Peek (eds), Preprints: Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice. Preprints of a symposium [held at] University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 26-29 June 1995, Lawrence, Kansas, 1995, pp. 186-90.
• Hackney, S. and J. Townsend, 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver: Cremorne Lights 1872', in: Hackney, S., R. Jones and J. Townsend (eds.), Paint and Purpose: A Study of Technique in British art, London, 1999, pp. 86-89.
• Hobson, G. D., Some Thoughts on the Organisation of Art after the War, London, [1946], pp. 37-38.
• Hermens, Erma, and Margaret F. MacDonald, in: Townsend, Joyce, and Erma Hermenns (eds), Sources and Serendipity: Testimonies of Artists' Practice, Art Technological Source Research (Study group), Archetype, 2009, p. 116.
• Moore, George, Modern Painting, London, 1893, p. 23.
• Ono, Ayako, Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan, London, 2003, p. 85.
• Prettejohn, Elizabeth, Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 176-77, 179.
• Pyne, Kathleen A., Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Austin, TX, 2010, pp. 117, 119-21.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Davies, Martin, National Gallery catalogues: The British School, 1946, p. 172.

EXHIBITION:

• Loan Collection of Works by James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, 1912 (cat. no. 19).
• American Painting: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day Tate Gallery, London, 1946 (cat. no. 232).
• Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 27).
• Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 17).
• 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. 47).
• Wilton, Andrew, and Robert Upstone (eds), The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain 1860-1910, Tate Gallery, London, 1997 (cat. no. 80), repr. p. 208.
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 65, repr. fig. 55 (not exhibited).
• Lochnan, Katharine, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005 (cat. no. 46), repr. p. 153.
• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 40-41 (cat. no. 8), repr. p. 41.
• MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

• The Builder, vol. 117, 15 August 1919, p. 164.
• Whitley, William T., 'The Acquisitions of 1919' in 'The Art Collections of the Nation, Some Recent Acquisitions', Studio, special number, 1920, pp. 33-61, repr. p. 59.
• Hackney, S., ‘Colour and tone in Whistler’s “nocturnes” and “harmonies” 1871-72’, The Burlington Magazine, 1994, vol. 136, pp. 695-99.

Websites

• Tate website at http://www.tate.org.uk.
• Philip Shaw, ‘The Sublime Exceeded: James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Cremorne Lights’, in Llewellyn, Nigel, and Christine Riding (eds), The Art of the Sublime, Tate Research Publication, January 2013, Tate website at https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 70) 'Nocturne, blue and silver / Nocturne, blue and silver: Cremorne lights'.

Other

• Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.