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. 263), plate 161, as 'Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 49) as 'Blue and orange: Sweet Shop'.
• Catalogue, Fenway Court, Boston, 1903, p. 18, as 'The Chelsea Sweet-Shop'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Sketches', Globe, London, 14 May 1886, p. 6.
• Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', Illustrated London News, London, 15 May 1886, p. 14.
• Anon., The Saturday Review, London, 22 May 1886, p. 708.
• Menpes, Mortimer, 'Whistler, the Purist', The Cornhill Magazine, new series, vol. 15, no. 90, December 1903, pp. 760-68, at p. 762, on 'The Blue Band'.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, pp. 118-19, 140.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, pp. 27-28.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 65, as 'The Little Sweet-Stuff Shop'.

Books, General

• Carter, Morris, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, Boston and New York, 1925 (reprinted, Boston, 1972), p. 103, as 'The Note in Orange and Blue - Sweet Shop'.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 5.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Hendy, Philip, Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1931, p. 418, as 'The Sweet Shop, Chelsea'.
• Longstreet, George Wendell, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, general catalogue, Boston, 1935, p. 201, as 'The Sweet Shop, Chelsea'.
• Hendy, Philip, European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1974, pp. 291-92, repr. p. 292, as 'The Sweet Shop, Chelsea' and 'The Note in orange and blue. (Sweetshop)'.

EXHIBITION:

• 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, p. 239 (cat. no. 158) (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

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

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 368).

Other

• Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.