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

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Brown and Gold: Lillie 'In our Alley!'

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. 464), plate 298, as 'Brown and Gold: Lillie "In our Alley!" '.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Twelfth Summer Exhibition, New Gallery, London, April-July 1899.
  • 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (cat. no. 136) as 'Brown and Gold – Lillie "in our Alley!" ' (de luxe edition, repr.)
  • 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. 18) as 'Lillie in our Ally' [sic] and 'Brown and Gold, Lillie in our Ally' [sic] in ordinary and deluxe edition respectively.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'International Art at Knightsbridge, Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 9 May 1899, p. 8.
  • Anon., 'At Knightsbridge, Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 10 May 1899, p. 10.
  • Anon., 'International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers', The Manchester Courier, Manchester, 10 May 1899.
  • Anon., 'International Society', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 10 May 1899, pp. 1-2.
  • Vermind, N. E., 'The International Art Exhibition', The Morning Leader, London, 15 May 1899, repr. anonymous sketch of the painting.
  • 'Venatrix', 'The International Society's Exhibition', Gentlewoman, London, 20 May 1899, p. 34.

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 p. 213, (cat. no. 379).
  • Cowan, John J., From 1846-1932, Edinburgh, 1933, p. 172.
  • Laver, James, Whistler, London, 1930, p. 285.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 205, 207, 224.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 77.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, no. 116, p. 167.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 50, repr. f.p. 50.
  • Wood, T. Martin, Whistler: Masterpieces in Color, ed. T. Lehman Hare, London, 1908, repr. pl. 5, f.p. 38.

Books, General

  • 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, p. 433 (cat. no. 460) repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Paintings, Etchings and Lithographs by James M. Whistler, Kennedy and Co., New York, 1916 (cat. no. 154).
  • Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (cat. no. 50).
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1972 (cat. no. 94), repr.
  • Wolohojian, Stephan, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; National Gallery, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003 -2004, (New York, NY, 2003), pp. 477-78 (cat. no. 219), repr.
  • Wolohojian, Stephan, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2003, pp. 494-95 (cat. no. 219), repr.
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 2004.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Shaw, Edith and Margaret F. MacInnes, 'Four Years with Whistler', Apollo, vol. 87, March 1968, pp. 198-201, at pp. 200-01.

Websites

  • Harvard Art Museums website at 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. 286).

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: 21st November 2020 by Margaret