The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0894
Blue and brown - Westgate, the Moors
Date
Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors dates from 1883/1884.
Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors, Victoria And Albert Museum
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 894).
Images
Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors, Victoria And Albert Museum
Subject
Site
Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors, Victoria And Albert Museum
Westgate-on-sea is on the Kent coast just west of Margate, a popular day-trip from London. It is near Birchington (where D. G. Rossetti died in 1882) and Whitstable.
Technique
Frame
The frame had the stamp of A. Holland, 20 Broad Street, London.
History
Provenance
- 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
- 1934: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Exhibitions
- 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 4) as 'Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors'.
The Globe commented:
'In some cases Mr. Whistler has succeeded, with very little apparent labour, in giving a vivid impression of natural effect – in the water-colour sketch, "Morning in Dutch Waters," for instance, and in the study in "Blue and Brown - Westgate, the Moors" '. 1
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 894) as 'Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
EXHIBITION:
- 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 4) as 'Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Sketches', Globe, London, 14 May 1886, p. 6.
Catalogues 1906-Present
COLLECTION:
- Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934,London, 1935,
EXHIBITIONS:
- Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015, p. 119.
- Feather, Jessica, Anna Greutzner Robins, Sam Smiles, and Frances Carey, Places of the mind : British watercolor landscapes, 1850-1950, Kim Sloan (ed.), British Museum, London, 2017, pp. 76-77.
Websites
- Victoria and Albert Museum website at http://collections.vam.ac.uk.
Notes:
1: Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Sketches', Globe, London, 14 May 1886, p. 6.