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. 128) as 'Study for the Head of Miss Cicely H. Alexander', plates 112, 397.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Oils, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1934 (cat. no. 15).

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Some Early Pictures by Mr. Whistler', The Art Journal, October 1897, pp. 289-91, at p. 290, repr. without butterfly.

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, p. 219 (cat. no. 424).
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 175.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 69.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 180).
• Singer, Hans Wolfgang, James Mc.N. [sic] Whistler, Die Kunst, Berlin, vol. 19, 1905 , repr. f.p. 36.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, repr. p. 19.

Books, General

• Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, 2nd edition, London, 1959, pp. 104-05.
• Harriet K. Stratis, ‎Britt Salvesen (eds.), The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper, 2002, p. 36.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, 2nd edition, London, 1959, pp. 104-05.
• Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 31).
• Pickvance, Ronald, A Man of Influence: Alex. Reid, 1854-1928, Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow 1967 (cat. no. 2).
• Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978 (cat. no. 91).
• An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Painting, The Frick Collection, New York, 2014.

SALE:

• Christie's, London 11 December 1970 (lot 163).

Journals 1906-Present

• Anon., Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, June 1907, p. 24.
• The Magazine Antiques, vol. 119, 1981, p. 1225.
• Baily, James Thomas Herbert, The Connoisseur, vol. 207, p. 38, repr.

Websites

• Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums website at http://collections.si.edu.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 113) 'Head of Miss Alexander'.

Other

• None.