The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Green and Blue - The Fields - Loches dates from the autumn of 1888, during the Whistlers' honeymoon.

Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1183).

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Subject

Site

Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Loches is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is southeast of Tours, on the left bank of the Indre River.

Technique

Technique

Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1183).

History

Provenance

• 1889: bought by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938).
• Date unknown: with H. Harlow & Co., Fifth Avenue, New York.
• 1934: sent by Mrs C. J. Sullivan to Macbeth, New York dealers;
• 1935: owned by Edwin A. Seasongood (1876-1953);
• 1951: sold at auction, Parke-Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1951 (lot 305), and bought by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1956: sold to Hammer, New York dealers, 28 December 1956.
• 1960: bought from Charles Lock, New York dealer, by Louis Vellette Keeler (1891-1969) and his wife Martha Emma Keeler;
• 1960: gift of Mr and Mrs Louis V. Keeler, Class of 1911, to Cornell University.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1183).

Exhibitions

• 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 3) as 'Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 92) as 'Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches'.

New York Herald, 2 March 1889, thought it 'Also worthy of mention' and The Epoch, 8 March 1889, commented on the quality of the cloud effects.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1183) as 'Green and Blue - The Fields - Loches'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 3) as 'Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches'.
• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 92) as 'Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• New York Herald, 2 March 1889.
• The Epoch, New York, 8 March 1889.
• Evening Sun, New York, 16 March 1889.

Websites

• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art website at https://museum.cornell.edu.