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. 402), plate 255, as 'Arrangement in Grey and Green: Portrait of J. J. Cowan'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• None.

Journals 1855-1905

• Thomson, David Croal, ‘New Pictures by Mr. Whistler’,Art Journal, January 1897, pp. 10-11, at p. 11.

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, pp. 156-57, 170-71.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 320-21.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, 518, 527-28, 534, 559, 564.
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 272-73.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 128.

Books, General

• Cassin, Michael, Art And--: The Expressive Arts and the Collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2000, p. 48.
• Cowan, John J., From 1846-1932, Edinburgh, 1933, pp. 156-57, 168-73, portrait by J. W. Alexander repr. f.p. 113.
• Ludovici, Anthony, An Artist's Life in London and Paris 1870-1925, New York, 1926, p. 102.
• Strong, Roy C., Brian Allen, The British portrait 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, 1991, p. 361.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• None.

Journals 1906-Present

• 'The National museums', The Year's Art, London, 1929, p. 40.

Websites

• National Galleries of Scotland website at https://www.nationalgalleries.org.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 224).

Other

• Frances Fowle, Alexander Reid in context: collecting and dealing in Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993.
• Tenniswood-Harvey, Arabella, Colour-Music: Musical Modelling in James McNeill Whistler's Art, PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, 2006.