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

 

M.0810
Sunset; red and gold - Salute

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46084
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 7 15/16 x 11 13/16" (202 x 300 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'N 4.11 x 6' and 'N.4'

Sunset; red and gold - Salute

Provenance

  • ca 1895/1900: bought by Agnes Inglis née Denny (1843-1925), Glasgow;
  • 1925: passed by family descent to her son Edwyn ('Ted') 0swald Inglis (b. 1884), advocate, Sheriff-Substitute of Renfrew and Bute at Greenock from 1940;
  • 1954: bought from Inglis by the University of Glasgow.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 810). The entry has been revised. Note that this was not part of the Birnie Philip Gift or Bequest, but was bought by the University in 1954.

Exhibitions

  • 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 49) as 'Sunset; red and gold – Salute'.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret