The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner dates from October 1886.

Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner, I. S. Gardner Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1116).

Images

Subject

Titles

• 'The Little Note in Yellow and Gold' (1886, Whistler). ¹
• 'Mrs Gardner in yellow and gold' (1931, Hendy). ²
• 'Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner' (1995, MacDonald). ³

'Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner' is the preferred title.

Sitter

Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner, I. S. Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924).

Technique

Technique

Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner, I. S. Gardner Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1116).

History

Provenance

• 1886: commissioned and bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924);
• 1924: bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Exhibitions

No exhibition is recorded in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1116) as 'Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner'.

Books, General

• Carter, Morris, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, Boston and New York, 1925, pp. 103-05.
• Carter, Morris, 'Mrs Gardner and the Treasures of Fenway Court', Art News, vol. 45, March 1946, pp. 2-6, p. 6, repr.
• Alan Chong et al. (eds.), Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2003, pp. 196-97.
• Hendy, Philip, Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1931, pp. 418-19.
• Hendy, Philip, European and American Paintings, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Boston, 1974, pp. 292-93 (as 'Mrs. Gardner in Yellow and Gold'.
• Longstreet, George Wendell, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, general catalogue, Boston, 1935, p. 201.
• Saltzman, Cynthia, Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, New York, 2008, p. 53.
• Smith, Corinna Lindon, Interesting People, Norman, Oklahoma, 1962, p. 156.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 108, repr. fig. 87 (not exhibited).

Websites

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum website at https://www.gardnermuseum.org.