The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: A composition - draped figures on a terrace; v.: Studies for 'Variations in Blue and Green' date from 1868/1869.

r.: A composition - draped figures on a terrace, The Hunterian

v: Studies for 'Variations in Blue and Green', The Hunterian

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 343).

Images

Subject

Description

r.: A composition - draped figures on a terrace, The Hunterian

Several draped female figures stand in graceful attitudes leaning on a balcony or terrace over the sea.

Technique

Composition

r.: A composition - draped figures on a terrace, The Hunterian

v: Studies for 'Variations in Blue and Green', The Hunterian

Variations in Blue and Green, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing on the verso may be an early sketch for Variations in Blue and Green y084.

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 342).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1958: bequeathed to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 343) as "r.: A composition - draped figures on a terrace; v.: Studies for 'Variations in Blue and Green' ".
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 84).

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.