Titles
Two titles have been recorded:
- 'The Selsey Shore' (Before 1890, C. A. Howell). 1
- 'Selsie Beach, or Sands' (1894, Whistler). 2
- 'Beach at Selsie Bill' (1894, Whistler). 3
- 'Selsey Shore' (1890, Christie's). 4
- 'The Selsey Shore' (1980, YMSM) 5
'The Selsey Shore' is the preferred title.
Description
The Selsey Shore, Hill-Stead Museum of American Art
A beach scene, painted in horizontal format. The dark beach in the foreground runs from lower right at a diagonal up to left. The sea is fairly calm, blue under a cloudy sky.
Site
C. A. Howell lived at Selsey Bill in Sussex (between Chichester and Portsmouth) on the south coast of England. Whistler made one etching there and a watercolour, both of which date from about 1880. Whistler visited Howell several times when he took the house Old Denner at Selsey Bill in the late 1870s.
Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret
