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

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Harmony in Yellow and Brown: Sunday

Technique

The Globe described the technique:

'Mr Whistler's fine sense of colour and his power of rapidly recording his impression of a scene, are ... best shown in his studies made in the streets about Chelsea. ... admirable studies, most harmonious in tone, produced with little apparent labour, but conveying an impression of completeness.' 1

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Globe, London, 25 May 1884; press cutting in GUL Whistler PC 7, p. 14.

Last updated: 14th November 2020 by Margaret