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

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Blue and Grey: Unloading

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. 296), plate 210, as 'Blue and Grey: Unloading'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 56) as 'Blue and grey – Unloading'.
  • Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (171) as 'Bleu et argent: Le Debarquement'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • ‘An Enthusiast’, [Sickert, W. R.], 'Mr Whistler and His Art', The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, vol. 5, 1 June 1884, pp. 199-201.
  • [Review of Dowdeswell 1884 exhibition], The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the Year … 1885, London, 1885, vol. 58, p. 173.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Holden, Donald, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes, New York, 1969, p. 63, pl. 21.

Books, General

  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 5.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 138, 294, pl. 42.
  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 14 (02.150).

EXHIBITION:

  • Selection of Art Objects from The Freer Collection, National Museum, Washington, DC, 1912 (cat. no. 4).
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, pp. 14, 94, repr. p. 40.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Newton, Joy, and Margaret F. MacDonald, 'Whistler: Search for a European Reputation', Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 41, 1978, pp. 148-59, p. 155, repr. p. 156.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.150a-b.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 436).

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: 14th December 2020 by Margaret