Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.1696
The Open Door

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Accession Number: 60.88
Medium: pen, brown ink, crayon and watercolour
Support: brown paper
Size: 216 x 129 mm (8 1/2 x 5 1/16")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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The Open Door

Provenance

  • 1960: sold at auction, collection of Henry Tozer, Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1960 (lot 210) as 'Figures in a Doorway', and bought by 'Betts';
  • 1960: given by Louis V. Keeler (Class of 1911) and Mrs Keeler to Cornell University.

The early provenance is unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1696)

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 27th February 2021 by Margaret