The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold' dates from April or May 1886.

Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold', Clark Art Institute

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1095).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold', Clark Art Institute

A nude girl with a parasol, The Hunterian

This is a copy of the oil, Harmony in Blue and Gold y197, which was then on exhibition at the Society of British Artists. It was drawn for publication in the Pall Mall Gazette. ¹ A nude girl with a parasol m1094 is a study of a similar composition.

History

Provenance

• 1886/1905: acquired by George Roland Halkett (1855-1918), journalist, at the Pall Mall Gazette;
• By 1915: owned by his wife, Lucy Marion Halkett née Lees (1867-1966).
• 1939: bought from W. Weeler, St James's, London, by Knoedler, London dealers, July 1939;
• 1939: sold to Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), Paris, and shipped to New York, November 1939;
• 1955: given to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (now the Clark Art Institute).

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 177) as 'Girl with Parasol / Study for the painting.'

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1095) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold' ".

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 177) as 'Girl with Parasol / Study for the painting.'

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Two Pages of Whistlers: Mr. Whistler’s “Arrangements” in Brown and Gold: Mr Whistler’s “Harmony in Blue and Gold” ', The Pall Mall Gazette Extra, London, 3 May 1886, pp. 77-78.

Books, General

• Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr, Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2 vols, New Haven, 1964.

Websites

• The Clark website at https://www.clarkart.edu.