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

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Violet and Blue: The Red Feather

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. 503), plate 323, as 'Violet and Blue: The Red Feather'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Eleventh Exhibition held at the New Gallery, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1901 (cat. no. 76) as 'Violet and Blue – The Red Feather'.
  • 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. 4) as 'Girl with a Red Feather', deluxe edition, repr. f.p. 32.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The New Gallery', Globe, London, 13 November 1901, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'Society of Portrait Painters', London Daily News, London, 14 November 1901, p. 6.
  • Anon., Pall Mall Gazette, London, 15 November 1901, p. 3.
  • Anon., St James's Gazette, London, 18 November 1901, pp. 6-7.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

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 (cat. no. 368).
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, London, England, 1908 (cat. no. 161).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, repr. f.p. 392, plate 323.

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 434-35 (cat. no. 461) repr.

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Paintings by Modern French Masters, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1921 (cat. no. 225) as 'A Chelsea Girl'.
  • Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1922.

SALE:

  • Kelekian sale, American Art Association, 20-31 January 1923 (lot 131) as 'Chelsea Girl'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Websites

  • Harvard Museums website as http://www.harvardartmuseums.org.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 297).

Other

  • None.

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