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

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Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of Master Stephen Manuel

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. 321), plate 206, as 'Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of Master Stephen Manuel'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 45) as 'Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of Master Stephen Manuel'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 51) as 'Portrait of Master Stephen Manuel'' and, in deluxe edition, 'Arrangement in Grey, Portrait of Master Stephen Manuel'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Three Picture Galleries', London Evening Standard, London, 30 November 1885, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'The British Artists', Truth, London, 3 December 1885, p. 16.
  • Anon., 'Society of British Artists', Globe, London, 5 December 1885, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'Occasional Notes' Pall Mall Gazette, London, 8 December 1885, pp. 3-4.
  • Anon., 'The Society of British Artists',Illustrated London News, London, 12 December 1885, p. 22.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, repr. p. 196.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, fig. 54.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, repr. f.p. 48.

Books, General

  • Bomberg, Ruth, Walter Sickert: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2000 (cat. no. 76, II).
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, pp. 284-85.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 145, 295, pl. 51.
  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 13 (08. 178).

EXHIBITION:

  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 19.

Journals 1906-Present

  • John Burr, 'Sufferings of a Suffolk Streeter', The Art Journal, vol. 68, 1906, p. 195, repr.
  • Sherrill, Sarah B., 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler', The Magazine Antiques, vol. 125, 1984, p. 956.
  • Sickert, Walter Richard, ‘Where Paul and I differ’, Art News, no. 14, 10 February 1910, p. 113.
  • Sickert, Walter Richard, ‘L’Affaire Greaves’, New Age, 15 June 1911, pp. 159-60. at p. 160.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.178a-b.
  • 'Whistler’s Portraits: Ripper, Vampire, or Sickert?', Bento, Blog, 13 July 2016, https://www.freersackler.si.edu.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 305).

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.

Last updated: 14th November 2020 by Margaret