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

 

YMSM 263
Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P25e6
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 120 x 210 mm (4 3/4 x 8 1/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Small Dowdeswell, possibly Charles Mitchell May, 1886 [11.1 cm]

Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop

Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop probably dates from 1884, and certainly before its first exhibition in 1886.

Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

It was probably painted during Whistler's sojourn in St Ives between January and March 1884. 1

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 263).

Last updated: 21st November 2020 by Margaret