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

 

Harmony in Yellow and Brown: Sunday

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 42) as 'Harmony in yellow and brown – Sunday'.

                    An Orange Note: Sweet Shop, Freer Gallery of Art
An Orange Note: Sweet Shop, Freer Gallery of Art

                    Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church, Freer Gallery of Art
Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church, Freer Gallery of Art

The Globe compared Harmony in Yellow and Brown: Sunday [YMSM 248] with An Orange Note: Sweet Shop [YMSM 264] and Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church [YMSM 305]:

'Mr Whistler's fine sense of colour and his power of rapidly recording his impression of a scene, are ... best shown in his studies made in the streets about Chelsea. The rows of old houses, "Sunday," "Old Chelsea Church", and the little "Sweet Shop" ... are admirable studies, most harmonious in tone, produced with little apparent labour, but conveying an impression of completeness.' 1

Notes:

1: 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', Globe, London, 20 May 1884, p. 6; press cutting in GUL Whistler PC 7, p. 14.

Last updated: 14th November 2020 by Margaret