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

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YMSM 424
Blue and Gold: Robin Hood's Bay

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897/1900
Collection: Whereabouts unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 146 x 241 mm (5 3/4 x 9 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Blue and Gold: Robin Hood's Bay

Technique

Blue and Gold: Robin Hood's Bay, Whereabouts unknown
Blue and Gold: Robin Hood's Bay, Whereabouts unknown

The colour of the panel is rather unusual: the light pinkish brown beach is touched with turquoise, and the sea, painted in thick ribbons of paint, is a mixture of turquoise and purple, under a lowering sky.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret