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

 

M.1089
r.: Study for the Tall Flower; v.: Design for a Wall Decoration

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1895
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.63a-c
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 9 15/16 x 6 15/16" (252 x 176 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '04.63' in unknown hand

r.: Study for the Tall Flower; v.: Design for a Wall Decoration

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1089) as 'r.: Study for the Tall Flower; v.: Design for a Wall Decoration'.

Books on Whistler

  • 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. 44, 176, pl. 93.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.63a-c, as 'The Tall Flower'.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret