The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl' dates from about August 1900. It was written on the verso of a draft of an unrelated letter (it concerns the sale of Rose and Gold: 'Pretty Nellie Brown' y451) that was probably written by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958).

Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl', The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1610).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl', The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

A study of, or for, Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl y421.

Technique

See YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 421).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death, and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
• 1958: bequeathed by Miss R. Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It was never exhibited.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 421) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl' ".
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1610).

Websites

• The Hunterian, University of Glasgow website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.