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

 

M.1397
Spring

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894/1895
Collection: Daniel J. Terra Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art
Accession Number: 1996.91
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 13/16 x 7 1/8" (275 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Spring

Spring probably dates from 1894/1895. The subject was suggested to Whistler by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) on 2 August 1894. 1

Spring, Terra Foundation for the Art
Spring, Terra Foundation for the Art

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1397). The record has been updated.

Notes:

1: #01507. Pyne suggests that it was bought in 1891 but the signature, details and setting suggest the later date (Pyne, Kathleen, ' "Classical Figures", A Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing', The Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 59, no. 1, Spring 1981, pp. 4-15, at pp. 6-7).

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret