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

 

YMSM 411
Violet and Silver: A Deep Sea

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1893
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1955.743
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 50.2 x 73.3 cm (19 3/4 x 28 7/8")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau Whistler, ca 1893

Violet and Silver: A Deep Sea

Violet and Silver: A Deep Sea dates from September 1893. 1

In the following January Whistler described two similar seascapes, 'Two paintings of mine - sea pieces … The pictures are quite new, having been painted only this autumn' (that is, in the autumn of 1893). 2

Violet and Silver: A Deep Sea, Art Institute Of Chicago
Violet and Silver: A Deep Sea, Art Institute Of Chicago
Dark Blue and Silver, Hill-Stead Museum
Dark Blue and Silver, Hill-Stead Museum

These two, reproduced above, were then exhibited at the Grafton Galleries.

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 411).

2: Whistler to S. Richards, [9 January 1894], GUW #10719.

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret