Study for "Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth" (recto); Study for "Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland" (verso)

Chicago, Albert Roullier Galleries, "Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters." March 7-21, 1921, p. 5, cat. 44, as "Sketch of a Lady's Dress." Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, "Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster," January 20–22, 1933, cat. 37. The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, James McNeill Whistler - Paintings, Prints, Whistleriana, July 20-October 29, 1939, no. 9. The Art Institute of Chicago, "James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Etchings, Lithographs," January 13-February 25, 1968, cat. 53; traveled to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N.Y., March 17-April 28, 1968. Berlin, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen, "James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903)," October 1-November 24, 1969, cat. 221. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," June 13-August 30, 1998, pp. 24 and 30, cat. 15, fig. 5; traveled to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, October 2, 1998-January 3, 1999. The Art Institute of Chicago, “Whistler’s Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago,” March 4–May 21, 2017 (no cat.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1933 (Chicago, 1933), p. 35. Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven, 1980), pp. 75-76, under no. 125. Katharine A. Lochnan, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven, 1984), pp. 161-163, pl. 195. Branka Nakanishi, “A Symphony Reexamined: An Unpublished Study for Whistler’s Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18:2 (Chicago, 1992), pp. 156-167, figs. 1, 4. Martha Tedeschi, “Forward,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18: 2 (Chicago, 1992), pp. 108-111, fig. 4. Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, 1994), p. 149. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 165-167, cat. 454 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24:1, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography (Chicago, 1998), p. 24, fig. 5. Linda Merrill, The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography (Washington, D.C., New Haven, and London, 1998), p. 131. The Broad Spectrum: Studies in Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper, eds. Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen (London, 2002), p.37, fig. 1.26 (ill.). Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, ed. Margaret MacDonald (Burlington, VT, 2003), p.38-40 (ill.). Margaret F. MacDonald, Susan Grace Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women, and Fashion, exh. cat. (New Haven and London, 2003), p. 111. Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, ed. Suzanne Folds McCullagh with the assistance of Melissa L. Gustin, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2013), p. 227, fig. 62.1 (ill.).