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. 152), plate 86, as 'Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

COLLECTION:

• Catalogue, Fenway Court, Boston, 1903, p. 2, as 'Symphony in Blue'.

EXHIBITION:

• 1892: Possibly Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 25) as ‘ “Nocturne”. Battersea Reach'.
• 1894: Possibly Große Kunst-Ausstellung des Kunst-Vereins in der Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, 1894.
• 1894: Possibly Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1894 as 'Battersea Reach'.
• 1898: Loan Exhibition of Pictures by Modern Painters, Copley Society, Boston, 1898 (cat. no. 91) as 'Symphony in Blue'.
• 1899: Exhibition, Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston (cat. no. 9).

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Chaleyssin, Patrick, James McNeill Whistler: The Strident Cry of the Butterfly, Bournemouth, 1995, p. 40.
• Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 86-87.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 66.

Books, General

• Carter, Morris, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, Boston and New York, 1925, p. 153.
• Chong, Alan, et al. (eds), Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2003, p. 200.
• Preston, Stuart, 'Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach', in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.), The Gardner Collection, New York, 1946, p. 54.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Goldfarb, Hilliard T., The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Companion Guide and History, Boston, 1995, p. 27 (which mistakenly dates it '1890s').
• Hendy, Philip. Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1931, pp. 417-18, repr. p. 417.
• Longstreet, Gilbert Wendel and Morris Carter, General Catalogue, Boston, 1935, p. 17.
• Hendy, Philip, European and American Paintings, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1974, pp. 291-92.

EXHIBITION:

• Simpson, Marc, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2008, p. 114.
• After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2004, p. 108 (cat. no. 5).
• Foster, Carter E. (ed.), Edward Hopper, Palazzo Reale di Milano, Fondazione Roma, Fondation de l'Hermitage, 2010, p. 65 (cat. no. 25).

Journals 1906-Present

• Guth, Christine M. E., 'Multisensorial Asia' in Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (eds.), Inventing Asia: American Perspectives Around 1900, Fenway Court, vol. 33, Boston, 2014, p. 96.

Websites

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum website at http://www.gardnermuseum.org.

Unpublished

• None.

Other

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