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

 

YMSM 271
Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.314a-c
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 124 x 217 mm (4 7/8 x 8 1/2")
Signature: possibly a butterfly l.r.
Inscription: none
Frame: Replica Dowdeswell, American, W. Lewin, 2004

Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud

Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud was probably painted in St Ives, between January and March 1884. 1

Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud, Freer Gallery of Art
Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud, Freer Gallery of Art

It was first exhibited in Whistler's one-man show of 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 52).

Notes:

1: Note by C. L. Freer, Freer Gallery Archives; YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 271).

Last updated: 14th December 2020 by Margaret