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

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Girl in Black

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. 470), as 'Girl in Black', plates 302, 428.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 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. 6) as 'Girl in Black'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Singer, Hans Wolfgang, James Mc.N. [sic] Whistler, Die Kunst, Berlin, vol. 19, 1905 , repr. f.p. 52 as 'Portrait Study of a young girl'.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 p. 212 (cat. no. 212).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, repr. f.p. 292 as 'Girl in Black'.
  • Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1924, repr. pl. 57 as 'Girl in Black (Pouting Tom)'.

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Lerner, Abram (ed .), The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1974.

EXHIBITION:

  • Paintings in oil and pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 42) as 'Pouting Tom'.
  • Childhood in Art, Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1926 (cat. no. 28).
  • Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978 (cat. no. 78).

SALE:

  • Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 15) 'Girl in Black'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • ' "Childhood in Art:" A selection of Paintings from the Exhibition Opening at the Knoedler Galleries Tomorrow', New York Times, New York, 28 November 1926, p. 3, repr.
  • 'Exhibitions in New York: Childhood in Art: Knoedler Galleries,' The Art News, 25, 4 December 1926, p. 9.

Websites

  • Hirschhorn Museum website at http://hirshhorn.si.edu/ as 'Girl in Black (Pouting Tom).'

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 284).

Other

  • None.

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