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

 

YMSM 300
Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884/1885
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind

Titles

The sole known title, with varying punctuation, is as follows:

  • 'Grey and Brown: A South West Wind' (1885, Society of British Artists). 1
  • 'Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

The title under which it was exhibited in 1885, 'Grey and Brown: A South West Wind', described the colour but not the subject. 3 .

In Truth on 7 May 1885 this painting and Note in Grey: Holland [YMSM 299] were described as 'little oil paintings of yellow seas', while the Illustrated London News, 25 April 1885, described them as 'studies of Dutch scenery'.

Site

The coast of Holland. A south-west wind (as the title describes) would bring long rollers breaking all along the shore.

Notes:

1: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 300).

3: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244).

Last updated: 11th November 2020 by Margaret