The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Grey and gold – Morning in Dutch Waters was first exhibited in 1886.

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 977).

Images

Subject

Description

The Saturday Review and Magazine of Art described it as a 'stormy haze at sea'. ¹

Site

Grey and gold – Morning in Dutch Waters was presumably painted in, or off the coast of, the Netherlands.

Technique

Technique

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'. ²

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 3) as 'Grey and gold – Morning in Dutch Waters'.

The critics in the Saturday Review and Magazine of Art described it as a 'stormy haze at sea'. ³

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 977) as 'Grey and gold – Morning in Dutch Waters'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 3) as 'Grey and gold – Morning in Dutch Waters'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Sketches', Globe, London, 14 May 1886, p. 6.

Journals 1906-Present

• Saturday Review, London, 22 May 1886.
• Magazine of Art, 1886, vol. 9, pp. xxx-xxxi, at p. xxxi.
• Kay, Charles de, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, 1886, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-3, at p. 1.