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

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Gold and Brown

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. 462), plate 296, as 'Gold and Brown'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Exhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 1898 (cat. no. 179) as 'Gold and Brown'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 1) as 'Gold and Brown – Portrait of Mr. James McNeill Whistler'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 29) as 'Brun et Or – Portrait de Whistler'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The International Gallery', Morning Post, London, 19 May 1898, p. 8.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Bénédite, Léonce, L'Oeuvre de James MacNeill Whistler, Paris, 1905, repr. pl. 1.
  • Dartmouth, Thomas, 'International Art at Knightsbridge', The Art Journal, August 1898, pp. 249-53, repr. on wall of exh., p. 249.

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. 155).
  • Denker, Eric, In Pursuit of the Butterfly, Seattle, 1995, p. 144, fig. 5:23.
  • Gallatin, Albert Eugene, The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler: An Iconography, London, New York and Toronto, 1913, pp. 6-7, 20-21, fig. 7.
  • Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Portraits of Whistler: A Critical Study and an Iconography, New York and London, 1918, 10, 28, fig. 7.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 221, drawing repr. f.p. 202.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 40.
  • Stein, Donna, Whistler, New York, 1984, p. 30, repr. pl. 15.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 131, fig. 58.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 197, pl. 128.

Books, General

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'James McNeill Whistler: An Artist on Artists', in: Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 16, Issue 2, 2015, pp. 200-22, Taylor and Francis Online, DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2015.1038437.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1970, pp. 122, repr.
  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, p. 257, repr.
  • Williams, William James, A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1981, pp. 132, 135, 137, repr.
  • Walker, John, National Gallery of Art, Washington, revised edition, New York, 1984, p. 561 (cat. no. 851), repr.
  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1992, p. 382, repr.
  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles, American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, DC, 1998, pp. 257-61, repr.

EXHIBITION<

  • From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968 (cat. no. 90), as 'Brown and Gold: Self-Portrait'.
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 53) as 'Braun und Gold: Selbstbildnis'.
  • Selected American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, University Center Gallery, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1974 (no catalogue).
  • Spink, Nesta, and John Holmes, Whistler: The Later Years, [Checklist], Ann Arbor, 1978 (cat. no. 99) checklist, repr., as 'Brown and Gold: Self-Portrait'.
  • Fin-de-siècle Faces: Portraiture in the Age of Proust, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Humanities, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1988 (cat. no. 40).
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. nos. 204, 284), repr., as 'Gold and Brown'.
  • Denker, Eric, In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1995, p. 144, fig. 5:23.
  • Whistler and Vanderbilt: An Artist and His Patron, Biltmore House, Asheville, 1999 (no catalogue).
  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 89-90, 94, repr. fig. 74.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Masters in Art, vol. 8, part 96, December 1907, repr. p. 484.
  • Burns, Sarah, 'Old Maverick to Old Master: Whistler in the Public Eye in Turn-of-the-Century America', The American Art Journal , vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 1990, p. 42, fig. 9.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'James McNeill Whistler: An Artist on Artists', in: Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 16, Issue 2, 2015, pp. 200-22, Taylor and Francis Online, DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2015.1038437.

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at http://www.nga.gov.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 9) 'Self portrait: gold and brown / Brown and gold'.

Other

  • 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: 13th November 2020 by Margaret