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

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M.0418
A Yellow Note

Artist: Formerly attributed to James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1874
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.276a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 x 7 1/4-7 3/8" (280 x 185-188 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

A Yellow Note

Technique

A Yellow Note, Freer Gallery of Art
A Yellow Note, Freer Gallery of Art

The technique is not entirely consistent with Whistler's work. It was bought by C. L. Freer in 1902 but it appears that he may have had reservations about it, because it was left with the artist 'to re-touch or destroy as he may wish'; however, it is unlikely that further work was done on it. 1

Notes:

1: Memorandum, 25 August 1902, FGA.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret