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

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Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth

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. 125), plate 78, as 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 454).

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 3) as 'Portrait, "Arrangement in Black, No. 2" '.
  • Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1884 (cat. no. 299) as 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 324) as 'Mrs. Louis Huth'.
  • 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. 53) as 'Portrait of Mrs. Huth', and, in deluxe edition, as 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2; Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth', repr. f.p. 106.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Society of British Artists', London Evening Standard, London, 4 December 1884, p. 3.
  • Anon., Building News, London, 5 December 1884.
  • Anon., 'The Society of British Artists', St James's Gazette, London, 10 December 1884, p. 6.

Journals 1855-1905

  • The Athenaeum, no. 2980, 6 December 1884, p. 743.
  • Thomson, David Croal, 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Some Personal Recollections', The Art Journal, vol. 65, September 1903, pp. 265-68, repr. p. 267.
  • Bénédite, Léonce, 'Artistes Contemporains: Whistler', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 33, 1905, pp. 403-10, 496-511; vol. 34, 1905, pp. 142-58, 231-46, in vol. 34 at p. 244.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Anderson, Ronald, and Ann Koval, James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, London, 1994, pp. 183-84.
  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 217, (cat. no. 405).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003, pp. 38, 144.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 38, 100-01, 111, 129, repr. fig. 37.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 178-79.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 142, 172, 194, 214, 497, 684.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 41).
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 126, 129.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 76.
  • Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 192, drawing repr. pl. 75.
  • Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, p. 108.

Books, General

  • Bryant, Barbara, G. F. Watts portraits: fame & beauty in Victorian society, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2004, p. 101.
  • Ganz, James A. (ed.), et al., Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, University of California, 2015, p. 20.
  • Prettejohn, Elizabeth, After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England, Manchester, 1999, p. 109, note 18.
  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Britt Salvesen (eds), The Broad Spectrum: Studies in Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper, London, 2002, p. 37.
  • Spencer, Robin, 'Whistler's First One-Man Exhibition Reconstructed' in: Gabriel P. Weisberg, Laurinda S. Dixon, and Antje Bultmann Lemke (eds), The Documented Image: Visions in Art History, Syracuse, New York, 1987, pp. 27-49, at pp. 30, 32.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (cat. no. 3633) as 'Portrait: Mrs Huth'.
  • 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. 32).
  • Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (cat. nos. 22, 53).
  • Victorian paintings 1837-1890, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1968 (cat. no. 147).
  • Morris, Edward, American artists in Europe, 1800-1900, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1976-77, pp. 32-33 (cat. no. 79).
  • 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. 63).
  • James McNeill Whistler, Walter Richard Sickert, Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, 1998 (cat. no. 7).
  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 10, 12, 75, 183 (cat. no. 11), repr. p. 10.
  • American Art Masterworks, Seattle Art Museum, 2014.

Journals 1906-Present

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler: The Painting of the “Mother” ', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 85, February 1975, pp. 73-88, at pp. 77-78.
  • Nakanishi, Branka, 'A Symphony Reexamined: An Unpublished Study for Whistler's Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland', Museum Studies, Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 156-67, 189-91.

Websites

  • None.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 110).

Other

  • Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994, p. 215.
  • Stephanie L. Strother, 'Cat. 14 Study for “Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth” (recto), c. 1872: Curatorial Entry,' in Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 14).

Last updated: 27th April 2021 by Margaret