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

 

Cliffs and Breakers

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss R. Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

  • 1884: Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 37) as 'The Green Headland'.

Cliffs and Breakers could possibly have been the oil exhibited by Messrs Dowdeswell in 1884 (cat. no. 37) as 'The Green Headland'. 1 However, there is really very little headland showing in Cliffs and Breakers, so The Green Headland [YMSM 279] has been catalogued separately.

Notes:

1: Meyers says 'probably': Myers 2003 [more] , p. 91.

Last updated: 23rd May 2021 by Margaret