The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1590
A house at Flushing
Date
A house at Flushing probably dates from 1899/1900.
A house at Flushing, Collection of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1590).
Images
A house at Flushing, Collection of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis
Subject
Site
A house at Flushing, Collection of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis
Vlissingen (Flushing), The Netherlands.
Technique
Technique
A house at Flushing, Collection of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1594).
History
Provenance
- 1903: in Whistler's studio in 1903 and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
- 1958: bequeathed to the University of Glasgow;
- 1968: this and other works were exchanged for Copy after Ingres's 'Roger délivrant Angélique' y011 with Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York art dealer;
- 1968 or after: sold by Spanierman to Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis, New York.
See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1594).
Exhibitions
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime, as far as is known.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1590) as 'A house at Flushing'.
Books on Whistler
- Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, repr. p. 126, pl. 151.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Young, Andrew McLaren, James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English-Speaking Union of the United States, London and New York, 1960 (cat. no. 101).
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 115).
- Tally, Melinda Kahn, British drawings, 1760-1925: A Loan Exhibition, Davis and Langdale Co., New York, 1985 (cat. no. 55).
- Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald (eds), James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 172), repr.
- Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997 (no cat. no.).
Journals 1906-Present
- Mansfield, Howard, 'Whistler in Belgium and Holland', The Print-Collector's Quarterly, vol. 6, December 1916, pp. 374-95, p. 394.