Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water

1. The artist, 1872; Alfred Chapman (1839–1917), London, June 1874 [<a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=11251">letter from James McNeill Whistler to James Alfred Chapman, June 22, 1874, GUW 11251</a>]. H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, by January 1900 [<a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=00739">letter from James McNeill Whistler to John James Cowan, January 6, 1900, GUW 00739</a>]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1900.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Probably London, Dudley Gallery, 1872, cat. 187, as Nocturne in Grey and Gold.
• Possibly London, International Exhibition, 1873, cat. 1556, as Nocturne in Grey and Gold.
• Possibly London, Pall Mall, Mr. Whistler’s Exhibition, 1874, cat. 10, as Nocturne in Grey and Gold.
• London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition, May 1879, cat. 193, as Nocturne in Blue and Gold.
• London, The Grosvenor Gallery, 1882, cat. 106.
• Possibly Paris, Petit Palais, 1883, cat. 7 as Nocturne en bleu et or.
• London, Goupil Gallery, Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Mar–Apr. 1892, cat. 30.
• Possibly London, Goupil Gallery, 1898, cat. 25, as Nocturne—Blue and Gold.
• Philadelphia, The Academy of Fine Arts, Late 1900 to about Mar. 1, 1901.
• Boston, Copley Hall, <em>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler: Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Drawings</em>, Feb. 1904, cat. 58, as <em>Nocturne, Southampton Water</em> (organized by the Copley Society).
• London, The New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler, Feb. 22–Apr. 15, 1905, cat. 9.
• Paris, Palais de L’Ecole des Beaux–Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, May 1905, cat. 67.

• Copley Society, <em>Loan Collection [of] Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler</em>, exh. cat. (Copley Society, 1904), 9, cat. 58, as <em>Nocturne, Southampton Water</em>.
• Elisabeth L. Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist’s Works (New York, 1907), no. 58, 165.
• Bernhard Sickert, Whistler (Duckworth & Co. & E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d.), 145, 161, cat. 77 (ill.).
• Joseph and Elizabeth R. Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols. (London & Philadelphia, 1908), Vol. I, 167, Vol. II, ill. facing p. 108.
• Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 3 (1910): 34.
• James W. Lane, Whistler (New York, 1942), 112 (ill.).
• Life Magazine 36 (May 17, 1954): 9–95, ill.
• Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), 483.
• Denys Sutton, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels, and Watercolors (London: Phaidon Press, 1966), 192, pl. 83.
• Donald Holden, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes (New York, 1969), 34–35, ill. p. 35, pl. 7.
• Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington, the Masterworks (Abrams, 1988), fig. 22, 49, ill.
• Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques (The Lakeside Group, 1988), fig. 2, 22, ill.

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