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

 

YMSM 268
Sands: Blue Note

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Sands: Blue Note

Titles

Only one title is known, with variations in punctuation:

  • 'Sands; blue note' (1884, Dowdeswell). 1
  • 'Sands: Blue Note' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

Presumably a beach scene, with blue sea.

Site

Possibly St Ives, Cornwall.

Notes:

1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 4).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 268).

Last updated: 19th March 2019 by Margaret