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

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Flower shop, Dieppe

Provenance

  • 1901: probably bought from Whistler by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) , New York dealer;
  • Date unknown: bought by Harris Whittemore (1864-1927) ;
  • 1927: passed to the J. H. Whittemore Company;
  • 1948: sold at auction, Parke Bernet, New York, 19-20 May 1948 (lot 152, repr.) as 'Flower Shops - Dieppe', and bought by Macbeth, New York dealers, for C. R. Robertson;
  • 1950: returned to Macbeth, and sold to J. Ryan, New York, in February 1953;
  • Date unknown: bequeathed to a lady;
  • 1994: sold through M. Crowdell to Daniel J. Terra (1911-1996) , Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, Chicago;
  • 1996: bequeathed to the Terra Foundation for the Arts;
  • 2004: following the closure of the Terra Museum of American Art, works on paper were transferred on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1514).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 25th February 2021 by Margaret