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

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Miss May Alexander

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. 127), plate 81, as 'Miss May Alexander'.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 122-23, 127.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 8th exhibition, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1898 (cat. no. 5) as 'Miss May Alexander'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 19) as 'Portrait of Agnes Mary, Miss Alexander'.
  • 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. 109) as 'Portrait of Agnes Mary, Miss Alexander'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • 'The Society of Portrait Painters', Nottingham Guardian, Nottingham, 25 October 1898.
  • 'A. H. P.', 'Portraits at the Grafton', Westminster Gazette, London, 26 October 1898.
  • Anon., 'Grafton Gallery', Echo, London, 26 October 1898.
  • 'The Grafton Galleries: Society of Portrait Painters', The Athenaeum, London, 29 October 1898.
  • Anon., 'Art Notes', Illustrated London News, London, 29 October 1898.
  • Anon., 'Portrait Painteers' Exhibition', The Queen, London, 19 November 1898, pp. 62-63.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Stevenson, R. A. M., 'Some Autumn Exhibitions', The Art Journal, January 1899, pp. 26-29, at p. 28, repr. p. 27.

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. 190).
  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 33-34, drawings repr. pp 37, 147.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 122-24, 127.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 173, 175; vol. 2, oil and drawings repr. f.p. 237.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 134.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 190).
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 46.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 135-38.

Books, General

  • Wahl, Kimberley, Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an Age of Reform, Durham NH, 2013, pp. 36-37, 39.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION

  • Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, 2nd edition, London, 1959, p. 104.

EXHIBITION

  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 22).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Colby, Reginald, 'Whistler and “Miss Cissie” ', Quarterly Review, vol. 298, July 1960, pp. 309-20, pp. 310-11.

Websites

  • Tate Britain, 2010, website at http://www.tate.org.uk.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. nos. 114-115).

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.

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