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

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M.0909
Design for the colouring of a room

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1901.168
Medium: watercolour
Support: white wove paper
Size: 9 15/16 x 6 15/16" (252 x 176 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'Ceiling - / Cornice./ Wall - / Venetian Red - / White. Yellow ochre. / Skirting board - Venetian Red. White. Raw Sienna. / Waxed F1oor.-'; v.: in Frederick Keppel's hand, 'Design for the coloring of a room - / A Symphony in red, white and yellow!'

Design for the colouring of a room

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 909) as 'Design for the colouring of a room'.

Books on Whistler

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 124, fig. 4.13.
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 67, 177, pl. 92.
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 11, fig. 7.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1901.168, as 'Design for the Coloring of a Room'.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret