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

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YMSM 291
The Little Alley: Grey

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown
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The Little Alley: Grey

Titles

Only one title, with variations in punctuation, is known:

  • 'The Little Alley; grey' (1884, Dowdeswell). 1
  • 'The Little Alley: Grey' (1980, YMSM). 2

The preferred title is 'The Little Alley: Grey'.

Description

Judging from the title, it showed a narrow alley or street.

Site

Possibly St Ives, Cornwall, or Chelsea, London. A similar subject and colour (or lack of colour) appears in A Grey Note: Village Street [YMSM 265].

A Grey Note: Village Street
A Grey Note: Village Street

Notes:

1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 60).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 291).

Last updated: 30th March 2019 by Margaret