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

 

YMSM 279
The Green Headland

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

The Green Headland

Titles

One title has been suggested and one possible alternative:

  • 'The Green Headland' (1884, Dowdeswell). 1
  • 'A Green Note- The Cliffs, St. Ives – Cornwall' (1889, Wunderlich). 2
  • 'The Green Headland' (1980, YMSM). 3

Description

Presumably this showed a headland jutting out into the sea, with waves breaking on the shore.

Cliffs and Breakers, The Hunterian
Cliffs and Breakers, The Hunterian

It is possible that it is Cliffs and Breakers [YMSM 278].

Site

St Ives, a small fishing port in Cornwall, in south-west England, where Whistler stayed with Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) and Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) in January-March 1884.

Notes:

1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 37).

2: Possibly “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 28).

3: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 279).

Last updated: 2nd April 2021 by Margaret