Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Spring

Spring probably dates from 1894/1895. The subject was suggested to Whistler by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) on 2 August 1894. 1

Spring, Terra Foundation for the Art
Spring, Terra Foundation for the Art

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1397). The record has been updated.

Notes:

1: #01507. Pyne suggests that it was bought in 1891 but the signature, details and setting suggest the later date (Pyne, Kathleen, ' "Classical Figures", A Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing', The Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 59, no. 1, Spring 1981, pp. 4-15, at pp. 6-7).

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