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

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M.1007
Note in green - The Garden Laundry

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Note in green - The Garden Laundry

Provenance

  • 1900: 'The Laundry', probably this painting, was sold by Alexander Reid (1854-1928) , Glasgow art dealer, to John James Cowan (1846-1936) , 1 but was not recorded in later documents.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1007).

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 74) as 'Note in green – The Garden Laundry'.

Notes:

1: Information provided by A. McN. Reid, in a letter from the National Gallery of Scotland, 14 0ctober 1963, Archives of Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library.

Last updated: 20th February 2021 by Margaret