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

 

M.1530
The Bead Stringers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46271
Medium: charcoal and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on double sided card
Size: 7 1/16 x 10 3/4" (180 x 273 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'The Bead Stringers/ Exhibited Paris 1905' in R. B. Phi1ip's hand

The Bead Stringers

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1935: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1530).

Exhibitions

  • 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 149) as 'Bead Stringing'.

Due to the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's Gift, this work cannot be exhibited elsewhere.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret