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

 

YMSM 259
Yellow and Grey

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Yellow and Grey

Titles

Only one title is known:

  • 'Yellow and grey' (1884, Dowdeswell). 1
  • 'Yellow and Grey' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

The Builder described the subject as the figure of 'a girl standing before a background of yellow, ... charming in attitude.' 3 The Standard described the colours in more detail: 'a girl in yellowish grey raiment, just touched with vivid green – she stands in front of a blazing greenish-yellow background'. 4

Sitter

Possibly Maud Franklin (1857-ca 1941) or Millie Finch (fl. 1875-1885).

Notes:

1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 43).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 259).

3: Builder, 24 May 1884.

4: Standard, London, 19 May 1884. Press cuttings in GUL Whistler PC 6, p. 9.

Last updated: 7th February 2021 by Margaret