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

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YMSM 301
Variations in Violet

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Variations in Violet

Provenance

  • Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1884: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat no. 30) as 'Variations in Violet'.

It was described in the Liverpool Mercury on 3 July 1884 as 'a clever flower study.' 1

Notes:

1: Press cutting in GUL Whistler PC 7, p. 13.

Last updated: 11th November 2020 by Margaret