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

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The Gold Scab

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. 208), plate 148, as 'The Gold Scab'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1900 (cat. no. 26) as 'Arrangement in Green and Gold'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'How The World Wags', Glasgow Evening Post, Glasgow, 17 December 1879, p. 2.
  • 'An occasional correspondent', 'Relics of Lord Byron. An Interesting sale in London', New York Daily Tribune, New York, 13 March 1880, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'Editorial Brevities', Glasgow Evening Post, Glasgow, 25 January 1893, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'Minor Exhibitions', The Times, London, 26 March 1900, p. 3,

Journals 1855-1905

  • Godwin, E. W., 'Notes on Current Events', British Architect, 6 January 1882, p. 2.
  • Anon., 'The Goupil Gallery', The Builder, 24 March 1900, p. 284.
  • Graves, Algernon, 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler', Printseller and Print Collector, vol. 1, August 1903, pp. 341-45, pp. 342-43.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 254-256, 258, 420, notes 78-79.
  • Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in 'Whistler v. Ruskin', Washington and London, 1992, p. 403.
  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 288.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 256, 259, repr. f.p. 250.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 183, 186-87.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 113, 326.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 336-37.
  • Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 102-03.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 164.
  • Walker, John, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1987, p. 85.

Books, General

  • Burgard, Timothy Anglin, and Daniell Cornell, Masterworks of American painting at the De Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 2005, pp. 178, 181.
  • Dayan, Peter, Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond, Farnham, 2011, pp. 25-28.
  • Jacomb-Hood, G. P., With Brush and Pencil, London, 1925, p. 47.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Antique and Decorative Arts League (ed.), The First Annual Fine Arts Exposition, New York, 1934.
  • Art Collection of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1926, p. 11, repr.
  • Exhibition of Paintings, French & Co., New York, 1945.
  • 1st Annual Fine Art Exhibition, The Forum, Rockefeller Center, New York, 1957 (cat. no. 49).
  • American Classics of the Nineteenth Century, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Baltimore Museum of Art; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, 1957-1958 (cat. no. 49).
  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 42).
  • Peacock Room Remix: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur Sackler Gallery, Washington DC., 2013-2014.

Journals 1906-Present

  • American Magazine of Art, September 1921, p. 298.
  • 'Notes of the Month', International Studio, vol. 95, no. 383, February 1930, pp. 59-60, repr. p. 60.
  • 'The great calender of American exhibitions', Arts Magazine, Art Digest Incorporated, 1945, vol. 20, p. 12.
  • Fell, Herbert Granville, 'Memories of Whistler, No. 1. - The Peacock Room', Connoisseur, vol. 95, 1935, pp. 21-24, p. 21.
  • Horowitz, Ira M., 'Whistler's Frames', The Art Journal, vol. 39, Winter 1979-80, pp. 124-31.
  • Savage, Kirk, ' "A Forcible Piece of Weird Decoration": Whistler and "The Gold Scab" ', Smithsonian Studies in American Art, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 1990, pp. 40-53.

Websites

  • Peacock Room Remix: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre, Freer Gallery of Art, 2015 website at http://www.asia.si.edu/filthylucre.
  • 'The Gold Scab', Art Institute of Chicago website at https://www.artic.edu.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 444).

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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