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

 

M.1694
r.: Blue and Silver: Morning - Ajaccio; v.: Building and trees

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Accession Number: 1955/1.90
Medium: watercolour
Support: japan paper, laid down on card
Size: 250 x 145 mm (9 13/16 x 5 11/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Blue & Silver - / Morning./ Ajaccio.', signed with butterfly, on backing

r.: Blue and Silver: Morning - Ajaccio; v.: Building and trees

Provenance

  • 1903: bought from Whistler on 8 May by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) ;
  • 1912: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
  • 1914: sold on 30 April to Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) ;
  • 1936: bequeathed to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with a life interest to her husband Dr Walter R. Parker (1866-1955).

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1694)

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Exhibition catalogue Boston 1904 [more] (cat. no. 146).
  • 1905: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, London 1905 [more] (cat. no. 104).

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret