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

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Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge

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. 139), plate 114, as 'Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge', figs 395, 396.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 480-84, 1388).

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (not numbered) as 'Screen – Blue and Silver'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • None.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Alexandre, Arsène, 'J. McNeill Whistler', Les Arts, October 1903, pp. 22-32, at p. 23, reproduces a photograph by Dornac of Whistler sitting in front of the screen in his Paris studio in rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs.
  • The Studio, vol. 34, 1905, p. 223, reproduces a photograph by Dornac of Whistler sitting in front of the screen in his Paris studio in rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, pp. 92, 94, 161, repr. fig. 38.
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 204, 206-07.
  • Denker, Eric, In Pursuit of the Butterfly, Seattle, 1995, p. 133.
  • Enaud-Lechien, Isabelle, James Whistler, le peintre et le polémiste (1834-1903), Courbevoie, 1995, p. 47.
  • Getscher, Robert Harold, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels, New York, 1991, p. 64.
  • Lawton, Thomas, Freer: a Legacy of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993, p. 171.
  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 182.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 138.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 122, 302.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 194, 283, 284.
  • Spencer, Robin, The Aesthetic Movement, London and New York, 1972, pp. 76-77, repr.
  • Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, p. 83.
  • Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, p. 72.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 87.

Books, General

  • Ives, Colta, 'City Life', in: Colta Ives, Helen Giambruni and Sasha M. Newman (eds), Pierre Bonnard. The Graphic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, pp. 110-11.
  • Lambourne, Lionel, The Aesthetic Movement, London, 1996, p. 85.
  • Ono, Ayako, Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan, London, 2003, pp. 74-75.
  • Pyne, Kathleen A., Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Austin, TX, 2010, p. 171.
  • Robertson, W. Graham, Time Was: the Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson, London and New York, 1931, pp. 199-200.
  • Watanabe, Toshio, High Victorian Japonisme, Berne and New York, 1991, pp. 237, 239, 241-42.
  • Whitford, Frank, Japanese Prints and Western Painters, London, 1977, pp. 143, 145 repr.
  • Woodbury Adams, Janet, Decorative Folding Screens in the West from 1600 to the Present Day, London, 1982, pp. 126, 134, pl. VII.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Hopkinson, Martin J., James McNeill Whistler at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1990, pp. 24-25, repr.
  • Allan, Christopher J., A Guidebook to the Hunterian Art Gallery of the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 1991, p. 14.

EXHIBITION:

  • Marchant, W., Walter Greaves. Exhibition of Works, Goupil Gallery, London, 1911, p. 4 (not exhibited).
  • Marchant, Wm. and Co., A Reply to an Attack Made by One of Whistler's Biographers on a Pupil of Whistler, Mr Walter Greaves and his Work, London, 1911, p. 4 (not exhibited).
  • Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (cat. no. 24) as 'Japanese Screen'.
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 25) repr. p. 39, as 'Wandschirm'.
  • Young, A. McLaren, Glasgow University's Pictures, Colnaghi, London, 1973 (cat. no. 86) repr. pl. IV.
  • Eitner, Lorenz and Betsy G. Fryberger, Whistler Themes & Variations, Stanford University Museum of Art, 1978, pp. 26-28 (not exhibited).
  • Komanecky, Michael, 'A perfect gem', in The Folding Image: Screens by Western artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1984, pp. 58-63, 113-14 notes 77-78 (not exhibited).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 246, repr. fig 220.1 (not exhibited).
  • Le Japonisme, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1988, p. 330 (not exhibited).
  • The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1988, pp. 3-4 (not exhibited).
  • 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, pp. 88, 130, 307 (not exhibited).
  • Denker, Eric, In Pursuit of the Butterfly, Seattle, 1995, pp. 132-33, figs 5.3, 5.4 (not exhibited).
  • Hobbs, Susan, The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Beauty Reconfigured, The Brooklyn Museum, 1996, p. 138, repr. fig. 17 (not exhibited).
  • MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014, pp. 132-36, cat. nos. 69-71 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, 'Whistler and Decoration', Antiques, vol. 126, no. 5, November 1984, pp. 1186-99, at pp. 1195-97, repr. fig. 13.
  • Curry, David Park, 'James McNeill Whistler. Pastels ... James McNeill Whistler. A Life ...', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 136, April 1994, p. 246.
  • Hackney, Stephen, 'Colour and tone in Whistler's “Nocturnes” and “Harmonies” 1871-72', The Burlington Magazine, October 1994, pp. 695-99.
  • Pyne, Kathleen, 'Classical Figures, A Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Spring 1981, pp. 9, 15, note 27.
  • Pyne, Kathleen, 'Portrait of a Collector as an Agnostic: Charles Lang Freer and Connoisseurship', The Art Bulletin, March 1996, at p. 89.
  • 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. 32-33.
  • Spencer, Robin, 'Whistler, Manet, and the Tradition of the Avant-Garde', in: Ruth Fine (ed.), James McNeill Whistler: A Reexamination, Studies in the History of Art, vol. 19, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 47-64, at p. 54.
  • Townsend, Joyce H., ‘Whistler’s Oil Painting Materials’, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 136, 1994, pp. 690-95, at p. 691, fig. 37.
  • Watanabe, Toshio, 'Whistler and Japan. A lecture presented to the Society on 16th October 1990', The Japan Society Proceedings, vol. 117, Spring 1991, pp. 22, 24-26.
  • Watanabe, Toshio, Japan and Britain. An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850-1930, Barbican Art Gallery, London, and Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 1991, p. 66.

Websites

  • Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41285.
  • ArtUK website at https://artuk.org.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 487).

Other

  • Curry, David P., 'The Red Rag Revisited: Whistler's Decorative Watercolours', in Liana DeGirolami Cheney and Paul G. Marks (eds), The Whistler Papers, Whistler House Museum, Lowell, 1986, p. 49.
  • Weber, Susan, 'Whistler as Collector, Interior Colorist and Decorator', MHPA Thesis, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, 1987, pp. 82-83,146 note 202, 187, fig. 75.

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