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

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Green and Blue: The Dancer

Provenance

  • 1903: sold by Whistler to Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) , 8 May 1903;
  • 1914: bought by Knoedler's, New York art dealers, 12 March 1914;
  • 1914: bought by Arthur Harris Whittemore (1864-1927) , 30 April 1914;
  • 1927: passed to the J. H. Whittemore Company;
  • 1985: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 6 December 1985 (lot 178, repr.), bought by Peter Terian, New York dealer.
  • 1988: bought from David Nisinson, New York dealer, by the Art Institute of Chicago, restricted gift of Dr William D. Storey, through prior acquisitions of the Charles Deering Collection and the bequest of Mrs Gordon Palmer.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1376).

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 96) as 'Green and Blue "The Dancer" '.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret