The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study for 'Morning Glories' dates from 1871/1873, and may have been signed in 1874.

Study for 'Morning Glories', Fitzwilliam Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 409).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

Study for 'Morning Glories', Fitzwilliam Museum

Morning Glories, Freer Gallery of Art

This may be a study for r.: Morning Glories; v.: Nude study m0410.

History

Provenance

• By 1903: possibly owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore;
• 1940: deposited by her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959), in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge;
• 1959: bequeathed by Knowles to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 409).

Exhibitions

No exhibitions have been identified 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. 409) as 'Study for 'Morning Glories''.

Journals 1906-Present

• Salvesen, Britt, and Martha Tedeschi, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 24, no. 91, p. 73, fig. 91, p. 70.

Websites

• Fitzwilliam Museum website.