The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 300
Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind
Date
Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind dates from between 1884 and 1885, and was first exhibited in 1885. 1
Images
Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind, Whereabouts Unknown
Subject
Titles
The sole known title, with varying punctuation, is as follows:
- 'Grey and Brown: A South West Wind' (1885, Society of British Artists). 2
- 'Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind' (1980, YMSM). 3
Description
The title under which it was exhibited in 1885, 'Grey and Brown: A South West Wind', described the colour but not the subject. 4 .
In Truth on 7 May 1885 this painting and Note in Grey: Holland y299 were described as 'little oil paintings of yellow seas', while the Illustrated London News, 25 April 1885, described them as 'studies of Dutch scenery'.
Site
The coast of Holland. A south-west wind (as the title describes) would bring long rollers breaking all along the shore.
Technique
Technique
Nothing is known of the technique, except that the colour was fairly limited.
Conservation History
Unknown.
Frame
Unknown.
History
Provenance
- Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1885: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244) as 'Grey and Brown: A South West Wind'.
It was priced £31.10.0 in the SBA catalogue. The reviewer in the Illustrated London News, 25 April 1885, described this painting and Note in Grey: Holland y299 as 'studies of Dutch scenery' (see also Note en gris: Dordrecht y293).
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. 300) as 'Grey and Brown: A South-West Wind'.
Authored by Whistler
- None.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244) as 'Grey and Brown: A South West Wind'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Anon., Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), London, 23 April 1885, p. 4.
- Anon., 'The Society of British Artists', Illustrated London News, London, 25 April 1885, p. 22.
Journals 1855-1905
- Anon., [W. R. Sickert], 'Whistler by a Whistlerite', Truth, 7 May 1885.
Monographs
- None.
Books on Whistler
- None.
Books, General
- Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 6.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- None.
Journals 1906-Present
- None.
Websites
- None.
Unpublished
- None.
Other
- None.
Notes:
1: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244).YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 300).
2: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244).
3: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 300).
4: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 244).