Resources
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic
Colby College Museum of Art
http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/museum/index.cfm
The Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art
The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/american.asp
The Frick Collection
http://www.frick.org
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
London Gallery Project
http://learn.bowdoin.edu/fletcher/london-gallery/index.html
Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/libraries-and-study-centers
Musée d’Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
http://www.aaa.si.edu/
Tate Gallery
http://www.tate.org.uk/
University of Glasgow
The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/
Glasgow University Library
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/
The James McNeill Whistler Etchings Project A Catalogue Raisonné
http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/
Victoria & Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu/
CATALOGUES RAISONNÉ
The James McNeill Whistler Etchings Project
http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
McLaren Young, Andrew and MacDonald, Margaret and Spencer, Robin and Miles, Hamish. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1980, catalogue raisonné
Stratis, Harriet (co-author), and Tedeschi, Martha (general editor and co-author). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné.The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 1998, 2 vols.
READINGS
Bacher, Otto. With Whistler in Venice. New York, 1908.
Barringer, Tim. Reading the Pre-Raphaelites. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2012.
Barringer, Tim, Rosenfeld, Jason, and Smith, Alison. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012.
Bendix, Deanna Marohn. Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington and London, 1995
Burns, Sarah. Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996.
Burns, Sarah. Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in 19th Century America. Oakland: University of California Press, 2004
Casteras, Susan P. and Denney, Colleen. The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996.
Chase, William Merritt. “The Two Whistlers: Recollections of a Summer with the Great Etcher.” The Century Magazine, June 1910: 218-224.
Curry, David Park. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.
Curry, David Park. James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Richmond, 2004.
Denker, Eric. In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Denker, Eric. Whistler and His Circle in Venice. Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art in conjunction with Merrill, 2003.
Dorment, Richard and MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler. London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994.
DuMaurier, Daphne. The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of his letters, 1860-1867. London: Peter Davies, 1951.
Duret, Théodore. Histoire de James McNeill Whistler et de Son Oeuvre. Paris: H. Floury, 1904
Eddy, Arthur Jerome. Recollections and Impressions of James McNeill Whistler. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1904.
Fine, Ruth E. Drawing Near; Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection. Exhibition Catalogue: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
Fine, Ruth E. (ed.) James McNeill Whistler; A Reexamination. Vol. 19, Studies in the History of Art. Washington, 1987.
Font-Reaulx, Dominique de, et.al. Gustave Courbet. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.
Gallatin, Albert E. Portraits of Whistler: A Critical Study and an Iconography. London: John Lane, 1918.
Getscher, Robert. The Stamp of Whistler. Oberlin: Oberlin College, 1977.
Glazer, Lee, MacDonald, Margaret F., Merrill, Linda, and Thorp, Nigel (eds.). James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essays from the Centenary Symposium University of Glasgow, 2003. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2008.
Glazer, Lee and Merrill, Linda (eds.). Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism (Symposium) (Freer Gallery of Art 2011). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
Goebel, Catherine Carter. “Arrangement in Black and White: the Making of a Whistler Legend.” Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 1988.
Grieve, Alistair. Whistler’s Venice. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler, Illustrated by Reproductions in Collotype of the Different States of the Plates. New York: The Grolier Club of the City of New York with the De Vine Press, 1910.
Lavery, Sir John. The Life of a Painter. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1940.
Lochnan, Katherine A. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984.
Lochnan, Katherine A. TurnerWhistlerMonet. London: Tate Publishing, 2004.
MacDonald, Margaret F., de Montfort, Patricia. An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2013.
MacDonald, Margaret F., Galassi, Grace, Ribiero, Aileen, and De Montfort, Patricia. Whistler, Women and Fashion. New Haven and London: The Frick Collection, 2003.
MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
MacDonald, Margaret F. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.
MacDonald, Margaret F. (ed.) Whistler’s Mother: An American Icon. New York: Lund Humphries, 2003.
Mempes, Mortimer. Whistler As I Knew Him. London, 1904.
Merrill, Linda. A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Merrill, Linda. After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting. Atlanta: High Museum of American Art, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
Merrill, Linda. The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Merrill, Linda. With Kindest Regards: The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Myers, Kenneth. Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition. Freer Gallery of Art. London: Scala Publishers, 2003.
Munhall, Edgar. Whistler and Montesquiou: The Butterfly and the Bat. NY and Paris: The Frick Collection and Flammarion, 1995.
Ono, Ayako Japonisme in Britain. Whistler, Mempes, Henry, Horpel and 19th Century Japan. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Orr, Lynn Federle and Calloway, Stephen. The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde 1860-1900. V&A Publishing: London, 2011
Pennell, E.R. and J. The Life of James McNeill Whistler. London: W. Heinemann and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1911.
Pennell, E.R. and J. The Whistler Journal. Philadelphia, 1921
Prettejohn, Elizabeth (ed.) After the Pre-Raphaelites. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Robertson, W. Graham. Time Was. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1931.
Rosenblum, Robert, and Stevens, Mary Ann. Art at the Crossroads. New York: Harry N. Abrahams, 2000.
Rossetti, William Michael. Some Reminiscences. London, 1906.
Ruskin, John. The Works of John Ruskin (E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (eds.) 39 vols, London: G. Allen, New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1912.
Sherburne, James Clark. John Ruskin or the Ambiguities of Abundance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Soros, Susan Weber. E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Soros, Susan Weber. Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Soto, Tomoko, ed. Japan and Britain: An Aesthetic Dialogue, 1850-1930. London: Lund Humphries with the Barbican Art Gallery and the Setagaya Art Museum, 1991.
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement and the Cult of Japan. London: The Fine Art Society, 1972.
Spencer, Robin. British Artists: James McNeill Whistler. London: Tate Publishing. 2003
Spencer, Robin (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective. New York: Wing Books, 1991.
Sutherland, Daniel. James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014
Sutton, Denys. Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1964.
Tedeschi, Martha. “How Prints Work: Reproductions, Originals, and their Markets in England, 1840-1900.” Chicago: Northwestern, 1994.
Stratis, Harriet (co-author), and Tedeschi, Martha (general editor and co-author). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné. Chicago and New Haven: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 1998, 2 vols.
Thorp, Nigel, ed. Whistler on Art: Selected Letters and Writings 1849-1903 of James McNeill Whistler. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Walden, Sarah. Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship. London: Gibson Square, 2003.
Way, T.R. Memories of James McNeill Whistler, The Artist. London and New York, John Lane Co., 1912.
Whistler, James McNeill. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Ed. Alfred Werner. London: W. Heinemann, 1892. Re-printed, New York: Dover, 1967.
Whistler, James McNeill. Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, A Valentine with a Verdict. Paris: L.H. May and New York: R.H. Russell, 1899.
Wilde, Oscar. “The Grosvenor Gallery.” Dublin University Magazine 90 (July 1877): 118-26.
Wilton, Andrew and Upstone, Robert. The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts: Symbolism in Britain. London: Tate Gallery, 1997.
Young, Andrew McLaren and MacDonald, Margaret and Spencer, Robin and Miles, Hamish. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980.
