The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Blue and Silver: Morning – Ajaccio; v.: Building and trees date from 1901.

Blue and Silver: Morning – Ajaccio, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Building and trees, University of Michigan Museum of Art

They are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1694).

Images

Subject

Site

Blue and Silver: Morning – Ajaccio, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Ajaccio, Corsica, photograph, 1895/1900, private collection

Ajaccio, Corsica.

Technique

Technique

Blue and Silver: Morning – Ajaccio, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Building and trees, University of Michigan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1694).

History

Provenance

• 1903: bought from Whistler on 8 May by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914);
• 1912: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1914: sold on 30 April to Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936);
• 1936: bequeathed to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with a life interest to her husband Dr Walter R. Parker (1866-1955).

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1694)

Exhibitions

• 1904: Exhibition catalogue Boston 1904 [more] (cat. no. 146).
• 1905: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, London 1905 [more] (cat. no. 104).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1694) as 'r.: Blue and Silver: Morning – Ajaccio; v.: Building and trees'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Copley Society (ed.), Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels & Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 146).
• The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers (ed.), Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late J. McNeill Whistler, London, 1905 (cat. no. 104).

Websites

• University of Michigan Museum of Art website at umich.edu.