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

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The Angry Sea

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. 282), plate 189, as 'The Angry Sea'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 2) as 'The Angry Sea'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 314).
  • The Inaugural Loan Collection of Paintings, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 1905 (cat. no. 164).

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., The World, 21 May 1884.
  • Anon., ‘Causerie’, Court Circular, London, 24 May 1884.
  • Anon., 'Messrs Dowdeswell's Gallery', Morning Post, London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.
  • 'M.C.S.' [Malcolm Charles Salaman], Kensington News, London, 29 May 1884.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Wedmore, Frederick, ‘Mr Whistler's Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Gray’, The Academy, vol. 25, 24 May 1884, p. 374.
  • Sickert, Walter Richard, 'Whistler To-day', The Fortnightly Review, vol. 57, new series, vol. 51, April 1892, pp. 543-47, at p. 545.
  • Sickert, Oswald, ‘The Oil Paintings of James McNeill Whistler’, The Studio, vol. 30, October 1903, pp. 3-10, repr. p. 14.
  • International Studio, New York, November 1903, vol. 21, no. 81, repr. p. 15.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Bell, Nancy R. E., James McNeill Whistler, London, 1904, p. 70.
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 54, detail repr. p. 55.
  • Holden, Donald, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes, New York, 1969, p. 57, pl. 18.
  • Lane, James W., Whistler, (American Artists Series), New York, 1942, p. 58.
  • Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. f.p. 116.
  • Prideaux, Tom, The World of Whistler, New York, 1970, pp. 180-81.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, pp. 2, 13, 16, repr. p. 15.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, fig. 50.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, pl. 82.
  • Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, pl. 22.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, repr. p. 14.

Books, General

  • Gilbert, Henry, Roy Ray, and Colin Orchard, All About St. Ives: A Guide to the Town, its Galleries and Art History, [St Ives], 2006.
  • Helmreich, Anne, Nature's Truth: Photography, Painting, and Science in Victorian Britain, University Park, PA, 2016, p. 114, fig. 34.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, pp. 93, 186.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p 14 (04.76).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 140, 294, pl. 44.

EXHIBITION:

  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, pp. 30, 85.
  • Tovey, David, St Ives Art pre-1890: The Dawn of the Colony,Tate St Ives, St Ives, 2008, p. 57 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Ladies Home Journal, Philadelphia, vol. 43, no. 2, February 1936, repr. p. 58.
  • Gilman, Richard, 'Americans Abroad', American Heritage, New York, October 1961, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 25.
  • Hobbs, Susan, 'A Connoisseur's Vision: The American Collection of Charles Lang Freer', American Art Review, vol. 4, August 1977, pp. 76-101, at p. 96.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website athttps://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.76a-c.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 397).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 8th June 2021 by Margaret