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

 

The Blue Sea

The Blue Sea dates from the 1890s, probably between 1893 and 1900.


                The Blue Sea, Pushkin State Museum of Art
The Blue Sea, Pushkin State Museum of Art

A date of about 1888 was suggested in 1980, based on a photograph. 1 This date was later revised to ca 1890. 2 However, further consideration of the butterfly signature and technique indicates a slightly later date, 1893/1900.

Notes:

1: 'Probably painted about 1888' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 380).

2: MacDonald 2006 [more] , at pp. 46-47 (cat. no. 23).

Last updated: 14th October 2020 by Margaret