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

 

M.1291
The Shell

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.63a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7 1/8 x 10 15/16" (181-184 x 278 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Shell

The Shell was probably the pastel bought from Whistler on 10 November 1892 by Alexander Reid (1854-1928) . 1

The Shell, Freer Gallery of Art
The Shell, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1291.

Notes:

1: Reid to Whistler, GUW #05141; Whistler to A. Reid, GUW #03232.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret