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

 

YMSM 231
Blue Wave: Near the Casquet Rocks

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Blue Wave: Near the Casquet Rocks

Titles

Possible titles include:

  • 'the vast deep blue wave ... near the Casquet rocks' (1912, T. R. Way). 1
  • 'Blue Wave: Near the Casquet Rocks' (1980, YMSM). 2

'Blue Wave: Near the Casquet Rocks' is the preferred title.

Description

A seascape, with a 'deep blue wave': Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) wrote 'I have a vivid recollection of the extraordinary liquidity and transparency of the water … given ... in one great sweep of the brush.' 3

Site

The Casquet Rocks are a navigational hazard eight miles west of the island of Alderney. Whistler visited Guernsey and Jersey in 1881.

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , p. 59.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 231).

3: Way 1912 [more] , p. 59.

Last updated: 3rd January 2021 by Margaret