The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

'The Sloop' was listed by Whistler in 1891, and was probably the same painting as 'Green & Gold, The Sloop', which was recorded in 1897. ¹

Green and Gold: The Sloop was catalogued as 'Whereabouts unknown' in 1980. ²

Blue and Gold: The Schooner, Private Collection

However, it has now (2022) been established that it is the painting known as Blue and Gold: The Schooner y276. This is partly confirmed by a torn label from the verso of the frame of Blue and Gold: The Schooner that bears a partial inscription by Whistler, '… Gold - / the Sloop', and is signed with a butterfly that can be dated to the 1890s.

Images

Subject

Titles

Although the title is very different, 'Green and Gold: The Sloop' is now identified as Blue and Gold: The Schooner y276.

History

Provenance

See Blue and Gold: The Schooner y276.

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. 368) as 'Green and Gold: The Sloop'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• See Blue and Gold: The Schooner y276.