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. 327), plate 203, as 'Harmony in Blue and Pearl: The Sands, Dieppe'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 1) as 'Harmony in blue and pearl – The Sands, Dieppe'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', Illustrated London News, London, 15 May 1886, p. 14.
• Anon., Saturday Review, London, 22 May 1886.
• Anon., ['A Lady Correspondent'], 'English Art in Bond Street', Dundee Evening Telegraph, Dundee, 27 May 1886, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Chronicle of Art: Art in May', The Magazine of Art, vol. 9 (supplement), 1886, pp. xxx-xxxi, at p. xxxi.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1924, plate 44.

Books, General

• Armstrong, Tom, An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts, Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, New York, The Monacelli Press, 2001, p. 130, repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITIONS:

• 29th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1922 (cat. no. 23) as 'Marine', repr.
• Whistler Loan Exhibition, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1947 (cat. no. 33) as 'Marine; Figures on the Sands'.
• White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 25).
• Whistler and his Influence, Thomas Colville Fine Arts, The Art Show, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2015, plate 1, as 'Harmony in Blue and Pearl: The Sands, Dieppe'.

SALES:

• Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 October 1945 (lot 37).
• Sotheby’s, New York, 29 November 1990 (lot 77).

Journals 1906-Present

• 'Whistlers at the Cincinnati Museum', 2, Fine Arts Review, October 1922, repr. p. 9.

Websites

• National Gallery of Australia, website at https://cs.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=315372
• National Gallery of Australia, press-release at https://nga.gov.au/aboutus/press/pdf/mr_newworksatnga.pdf.
• Hardy, Karen, 'The highlights of summer 2017-18 at the National Gallery of Australia', The Canberra Times, 7 December 2017, website at https://www.canberratimes.com.au.
• Westwood, Matthew, 'Whistler's little painting makes a big impression', The Australian, 8 December 2017, website at https://www.theaustralian.com.au.
• 'Whistler acquisition a major highlight of new works at the National Gallery of Australia', Artdaily.org, website at http://artdaily.com.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 428).

Other

• None.