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. 122), plate 30, as 'Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of the Painter'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1328).

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Fifth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists [Winter Exhibition], Deschamps Gallery, London, 1872 (cat. no. 30) as 'Arrangement in grey and black No. 2 – a Portrait'.
• [Exposition], Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1873.
• 19th Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1880 (ex cat.).
• Exposition Internationale de Peinture, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 1883 (cat. no. 2) as 'Arrangement gris'.
• Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 30) as 'Grey and Black. Sketch'.
• A Connoisseur's Treasures [Alexander Ionides Collection], Goupil Gallery, London, 1895 (cat. no. 10) as 'Portrait of the Artist'.
• 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. 30) as 'Portrait of the Artist'.
• Exhibition of Modern Works in Painting and Sculpture forming the Collection of the late George M. McCulloch, Esq., Winter Exhibition 40th year, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1909 (cat. no. 299) as 'Portrait of the Painter'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• 'The Dudley Gallery', The Times, London, 11 November 1872, p. 4.
• Anon., 'Winter Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, 168, New Bond Street', Morning Advertiser, London, 5 November 1872, p. 6.
• Anon., 'Fine Arts. The Society of French Artists', Illustrated London News, London, 23 November 1872, pp. 20-21, at p. 21.
• 'Megilp', Bailie, Glasgow, vol. 15, 21 January 1880, p. 11.

Journals 1855-1905

• Lostalot, Alfred de, 'Exposition internationale de peinture. Galerie Georges Petit', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 28, July 1883, pp. 77-80, at p. 80.
• Day, Lewis F., 'A Kensington Interior', Art Journal, May 1893, pp. 139-44, room containing this self-portrait repr. p. 143.
• Anon., 'Some Early Pictures by Mr. Whistler', The Art Journal, October 1897, pp. 289-91, at pp. 289-90, etching by W. Hole repr. f.p. 289.

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. 386).
• Gallatin, Albert Eugene, The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler: An Iconography, London, New York and Toronto, 1913, p. 19 (cat. no. 4).
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 4, 8, 51, repr. fig. 2.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 80, 137.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, p. 57.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 46, 113.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 124-25.
• Rossetti, William Michael (ed.), Rossetti Papers, 1862-1870, London, 1903, p. 222.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 113 (cat. no. 55).
• Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, p. 108, pl. 44.
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 126.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, repr. frontispiece.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 190, pl. 59.
• Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874, etching by P. Thomas repr. frontispiece
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, pp. 38-40 as 'Portrait of Himself as a Young Man'.
• The World of Whistler 1834-1903, Time-Life Library of Art, 1970, pp. 120-21, repr. as 'Arrangement in Grey'.
• McMullen, Roy, Victorian Outsider: a Biography of J. A. M. Whistler, London, 1974, p. 17, repr.
• Stein, Donna, Whistler, New York, 1984, frontispiece.

Books, General

• Detroit Institute of Arts, 100 Masterworks From The Detroit Institute of Arts, New York, 1985, pp. 200-01, repr.
• Maas, Jeremy, The Victorian Art World in Photographs, London, 1984, p. 175, repr. the McCullochs and their collection in Queen's Gate.
• Reff, Theodore, Degas, the artist's mind, Cambridge, 1987, fig. 2.
• Spencer, Robin, The Aesthetic Movement, London and New York, 1972, p. 94, repr.
• Stephenson, Andrew, ‘Refashioning Modern Masculinity: Whistler, Aestheticism and National Identity’, in Corbett, David Peters and Lara Perry (eds), English Art 1860-1914. Modern Artists and Identity, pp. 133-49, Manchester, 2000, at pp. 141-42.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Exhibition of Modern Works in Painting and Sculpture forming the Collection of the late George M. McCulloch, Esq., Winter Exhibition 40th year, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1909 (cat. no. 299).
• Second Annual Exhibition of American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1916 (cat. no. 103).
• Seventh Annual Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1921 (cat. no. 134).
• McIntyre, Robert G., Whistler: Loan Exhibition, New York, Macbeth Gallery, 1947 (cat. no. 20, repr. on cover).
• White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 14).
• Opening Exhibition, Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL., 1951, p. 56.
• America And Impressionism, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts and Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, 1951 (no catalogue).
• Expatriates: Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, 1953 (cat. no. 4).
• Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1954 (cat. no. 103).
• Young, Andrew McLaren, James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English-Speaking Union of the United States, London and New York, 1960 (cat. no. 29).
• Rewald, John (preface), Loan Exhibition: Birth of Impressionism, for the benefit of Entraide Française, Inc., Wildenstein, New York, 1963 (cat. no. 67).
• Triumph of Realism, Brooklyn Museum, N. Y., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1967-1968 (cat. no. 7), dates it 1867.
• Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969, p. 73, pl. 20, repr.
• Arts And Crafts In Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1973/1976, p. 246, repr.
• Heritage And Horizon, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976 (cat. no. 29), repr.
• [Exhibition], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1976 (cat. no. 245).
• Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978 (checklist).
• 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. no. 59).
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 3, 116-17, 178, 210 (cat. no. 8).
• Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015 (cat. no. 11).

Journals 1906-Present

• Thomson, David Croal, 'The Late Mr. George McCulloch', The Art Journal, February 1908, pp. 43-44, at p. 44.
• Gallatin, Albert Eugene, 'Whistler - the Self Portraits in Oil', Art in America, vol. 1, July 1913, pp. 151-58, at p. 154.
• Richardson, Edgar P., 'A Self-Portrait by Whistler', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 14, November 1934, pp. 20-23, at pp. 20, 22-23.
• Art News, vol. 53, no. 2, April, 1954, p 21, repr.
• Kondek, Donna, 'Whistler's Other,' Wayne State, vol. 1, no. 2, 1987, p. 13.
• MacDonald, Margaret Flora, 'James McNeill Whistler: An Artist on Artists' in 'Visualizing Identities: The Male Artist in Nineteenth-Century Britain', Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 16:2, 2015, pp. 200-22, at pp. 207-08, online.

Newspapers 1906-Present

• 'Family Art Game', DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 1979, p. 27, repr.
• 'Family Art Game', DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News/Detroit Free Press, 18 April 1982, p. 23, repr.
• 'Family Art Game', DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, 14 April 1985, p. 26, repr.

Websites

• Detroit Institute of Arts website at https://www.dia.org.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 6) 'Portrait of himself as a young man./ Portrait of the artist'.

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.