Technique

The Selsey Shore , Hill-Stead Museum of American Art

It is painted very thinly and possibly rubbed down as well. Whistler called it a 'rag of a canvas' and refused to sign it. 1

Conservation History

The Selsey Shore, photograph, 1980

The Selsey Shore, Hill-Stead Museum of American Art

Unknown. An early photograph shows it as slightly battered and sunken in.

Frame

Unknown.