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

Technique

Unknown. Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) remembered 'the extraordinary liquidity and transparency of the water … all given, seemingly, in one great sweep of the brush.' 1

Notes:

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

Last updated: 3rd January 2021 by Margaret