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

 

M.0894
Blue and brown - Westgate, the Moors

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Accession Number: P.19-1934
Medium: watercolour
Support: white paper laid down on card
Size: 9 3/4 x 6 3/4" (248 x 172 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '16' and 'Westgate' in unknown hands

Blue and brown - Westgate, the Moors

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1934: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 4) as 'Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors'.

The Globe commented:

'In some cases Mr. Whistler has succeeded, with very little apparent labour, in giving a vivid impression of natural effect – in the water-colour sketch, "Morning in Dutch Waters," for instance, and in the study in "Blue and Brown - Westgate, the Moors" '. 1

Notes:

1: Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Sketches', Globe, London, 14 May 1886, p. 6.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret