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

Blue and Gold: Robin Hood's Bay dates from 1897/1900. 1

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

It is dated from the technique and butterfly signature.

It was listed as 'Robin Hood's Bay (Blue & Gold)' by Whistler's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), among paintings received from Hinde Street on the closure of the 'Company of the Butterfly' in 1901 (while Whistler was away in Corsica) and sent to William Heinemann (1863-1920), the London publisher, on 19 February 190l. 2

Notes:

1: Dated 'Probably ... 1894/5' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 424).

2: GUL Whistler BP II Ledger c, pp. 5-6.

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