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

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Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist

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. 190), plate 129, as 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • III Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1879 (cat. no. 55) as 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold – The Gold Girl – Portrait of Miss Connie Gilchrist'.
  • Carfax Gallery, London, 1905.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 1 May 1879, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'Opening of the Grosvenor Gallery', North British Daily, Lanarkshire, 1 May 1879, pp. 4-5.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', London Evening Standard, 1 May 1879, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Leeds Mercury, Leeds, 2 May 1879, p. 8.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery' and 'Theatrical Gossip', The Era, London, 4 May 1879, pp. 3, 6.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery' and 'Circular Notes', Freeman's Journal, London, 8 May 1879, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'Sporting Notes', Sporting Times, London, 10 May 1879, p. 1-3.
  • Anon., 'Fashion at the The Grosvenor Gallery', Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, London, 24 May 1879, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 26 May 1879, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'Personal and Society Gossip', Sheffield Independent, Sheffield, 31 May 1879, p. 10.
  • 'An occasional correspondent', 'Relics of Lord Byron. An Interesting sale in London', New York Daily Tribune, New York, 13 March 1880, p. 6.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition', The Athenaeum, no. 2689, 10 May 1879, pp. 606-08, at p. 607.
  • Blackburn, Henry, Grosvenor Notes, London, 1879, drawing repr. p. 24.
  • Anon., Mask, vol. 2, 17 May 1879, caricature repr. p. 4.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Art Journal, vol. 18, July 1879, pp. 135-36, at p. 136.
  • Pascoe, C. E., Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, July 1879, p. 224.
  • Anon., Collector, vol. 3, 15 April 1892, p. 182.
  • Sickert, B., Burlington Magazine, vol. 6, March 1905, p. 434.
  • Sickert, W. S., 'Pictures of Actors', The Speaker, 29 May 1897.
  • Singer, Hans Wolfgang, James Mc.N. [sic] Whistler, Die Kunst, Berlin, vol. 19, 1905 , p. 82, no. 19.
  • Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 'James McNeill Whistler', Renaissance Latine, vol. 4, no. 6, 15 June 1905, pp. 353-78, at p. 358.
  • Symons, Arthur, 'Whistler at the Carfax Gallery', Outlook, 4 November 1905, pp. 626-27, at p. 626.

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. 490).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 201-02, 259-60, repr. with pen study, f.p. 259; vol. 2, p. 23.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 183.
  • Rutter, Frank Francis Vane Phipson, James McNeill Whistler: an Estimate and a Biography, London, 1911, pp. 61, 81-83.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 160 (cat. no. 69).
  • Singletary, Suzanne M., James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music, London and New York, 2017, p. 154.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 150, 171, 202.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 25.
  • Weintraub, Stanley, Whistler: A Biography, London, 1974, pp. 164-65.

Books, General

  • Bryant, Lorinda Munson, American Pictures and Their Painters, New York, 1917, p. 97, repr. fig. 57.
  • Hollingshead, John, Good old Gaiety, London, 1903, photograph of sitter repr. f.p. 38.
  • Jiminez, Jill Berk (ed.), Dictionary of Artists' Models, 2013, p. 222.
  • Langtry, Lily, The Days I Knew, London, 1925, pp. 66-76.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 173.
  • Symons, Arthur, Studies on Modern Painters, New York, 1925, pp. 47-50.
  • Tharp, Louise Hall, Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston 1965, p. 62.
  • Vuillier, Gaston, A History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to our own Times ..., New York, 1898, p. vii, repr. f.p. 412.
  • Ward, Edwin A., Recollections of a Savage, London, 1923, p. 263.
  • Weinberg, Helene Barbara, American Impressionism and Realism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 381.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Burroughs, Bryson, Catalogue of paintings, New York, 1911, pp. 66, 69, repr. p. 68.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A Hearn Gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1913, repr. p. 65.
  • Feld, Stuart P., and Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845, New York, 1965, pp. 376-77.
  • Luhrs, Kathleen (ed.), American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2, pp. 373-78, repr. p. 374.

EXHIBITION:

  • Fair Women, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, London, 1909 (cat. no. 130).
  • Paintings in oil and pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (ex. cat.).
  • 100 Years of American Painting, Utah Centennial Exhibition, Salt Lake City, 1947 (cat. no. 17).
  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 40).
  • American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1966 (cat. no. 99).
  • Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1968 (cat. no. 26).
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 28).
  • Casteras, Susan P., and Colleen Denney, The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England, New Haven, 1996 (cat. no. 66).
  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 108 (not exhibited).
  • Ono, Ayako (ed.), ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, Tokyo, 2014 (cat. no. 22).

Journals 1906-Present

  • American Art News, vol. 8, 14 May 1910, repr. p. 1.
  • Anon., ‘Two Portraits by Whistler’, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 5, June 1910, p. 132.
  • Pennell, Joseph, 'The Forty Undiscovered Whistlers', International Studio, vol. 72, February 1921, pp. cv-cxiii, drawing repr. p. cxi.
  • Murray, Donald M., 'James and Whistler at the Grosvenor Gallery, American Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1952, pp. 49-65.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • 'Another Whistler on view; Metropolitan's "Irving as Philip II of Spain" Surprise to Visitors', New York Times, New York, 13 May 1910.

Websites

  • Heilbrunn, Timeline of Art History , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, website at http://www.metmuseum.org.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 138).

Other

  • Ferber, L. S., William Trost Richards (1833-1905), Ph.D, Columbia University, NY, pp. 308-09.
  • 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: 21st May 2021 by Margaret