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

 

Rosy silver - The Pink Porch

Provenance

  • 1891: sold to Levi Ziegler Leiter (1834-1904) , 22 August 1891, for 60 gns. 1
  • 1997: sold at auction, Phillips, New York, 28 January 1997 (lot 131);
  • 1997/2013: Thomas Colville (n/a) , Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York;
  • 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no.26) as 'Rosy silver – the Pink Porch'.

The Bat, on 4 May 1886, commented:

'The Pink porch is a lovely bit, full of life and colour ... the tone is so sweet, so unobtrusive, that the pinks and yellows, faint though they would seem in other people's pictures, are infinitely more effective.'

Notes:

1: Sale rcorded on 22 August [1891], GUW #13037, #13083. These accounts were formerly dated incorrectly as 1889.

Last updated: 24th February 2021 by Margaret