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The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné

The Peacock Room: The Story of the Beautiful

The Whistler Collection at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Exhibition Publication

Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder. Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, distributed by Yale University Press, 2019.

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Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler. London: New Gallery, 1905.

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