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

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Shop Front

Titles

One title has been suggested:

  • 'Shop Front' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

William Merritt Chase described the subject as 'a green grocer's shop, with its orderly and colorful array of fruits and vegetables' and a 'crate of oranges ... against that background of green.' 2


                    An Orange Note: Sweet Shop, Freer Gallery of Art
An Orange Note: Sweet Shop, Freer Gallery of Art

                    Terrey's Fruit Shop, Chelsea, The Hunterian
Terrey's Fruit Shop, Chelsea, The Hunterian

A pile of oranges dominates the shop window in An Orange Note: Sweet Shop [YMSM 264] but it dates from 1883 or at latest 1884. No other oil appears to match the description. Whistler painted watercolours of similar subjects including Terrey's Fruit Shop, Chelsea [M.1002]. The painting described by Chase – whether oil or watercolour – has not been identified.

Site

Chelsea, London, UK.

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 323).

2: Roof, Katharine Metcalf, The life and art of William Merritt Chase, New York, 1917, pp. 120-22.

Last updated: 12th October 2019 by Margaret