The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1090
Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not
Date
Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not dates from between 1890 and 1895.
Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1090) dated 'c. 1886'.
Images
Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
r.: Study for the Tall Flower, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Sitter
Not identified. She appears also in r.: Study for the Tall Flower; v.: Design for a Wall Decoration m1089.
Technique
Composition
r.: Study for the Tall Flower, Freer Gallery of Art
Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
r.: Study for the Tall Flower; v.: Design for a Wall Decoration m1089 and Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not m1090 are closely connecteed although it is by no means clear if one is a study for the other.
History
Provenance
- 1901: bought from Whistler by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and his wife.
- Date unknown: possibly with H. V. Allison & Co., New York art dealers;
- Date unknown: acquired by Mrs Victoria Dreyfus (1881-1976) of Brewster, New York;
- 1976: sold from the estate of Mrs Dreyfus, at auction, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 October 1976 (lot 115, repr.);
- 1976: given by Mr and Mrs Arthur E. Hamilton to the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester.
Exhibitions
- 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 89) as 'Blue and Silver. Forget me not'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1090) as 'Blue and Silver: Forget-me-not'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 89) as 'Blue and Silver. Forget me not'.
Books, General
- Summary Catalogue, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1977, p. 60.
Catalogues 1906-Present
EXHIBITION:
- Sutton, Denys, Treasures from Rochester, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1977, repr.
- Masterpieces for Rochester: Acquisitions Since 1975, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1978-1979.
- American Drawings and Watercolors, 1800-1945: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1987-1988.
- James Abbott McNeil Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 2005-2006.
- Becoming Modern: Armory Show Artists at MAG, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2013.
SALE:
- Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 October 1976 (lot 115, repr.)
Websites
- Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, website at http://magart.rochester.edu.