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

 

YMSM 200
The Selsey Shore

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878/1881
Collection: Hill-Stead Museum of American Art
Accession Number:
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 45.7 x 61.0 cm (18 x 24")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

The Selsey Shore

Technique

The Selsey Shore , Hill-Stead Museum of American Art
The Selsey Shore , Hill-Stead Museum of American Art

It is painted very thinly and possibly rubbed down as well. Whistler called it a 'rag of a canvas' and refused to sign it. 1

Conservation History

The Selsey Shore, photograph, 1980
The Selsey Shore, photograph, 1980
The Selsey Shore, Hill-Stead Museum of American Art
The Selsey Shore, Hill-Stead Museum of American Art

Unknown. An early photograph shows it as slightly battered and sunken in.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Whistler to D. C. Thomson, 30 August 1894, GUW #08311.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret