The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 268
Sands: Blue Note
Date
Sands: Blue Note dates from shortly before the first exhibition at 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 4). 1 It was probably painted in St Ives, Cornwall, between January and March 1884.
Images
Sands: Blue Note, Whereabouts unknown
Low Tide, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Titles
Only one title is known, with variations in punctuation:
- 'Sands; blue note' (1884, Dowdeswell). 2
- 'Sands: Blue Note' (1980, YMSM). 3
Description
Presumably a beach scene, with blue sea.
Site
Possibly St Ives, Cornwall.
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
Conservation History
Unknown.
Frame
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 4) as 'Sands; blue note'.
Low Tide, Freer Gallery of Art
Myers suggested that it was Low Tide y280. 4
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. 268) as 'Sands: Blue Note'.
Authored by Whistler
- None.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 4) as 'Sands; blue note'.
Journals 1855-1905
- None.
Monographs
- None.
Books on Whistler
- None.
Books, General
- None.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 37.
Journals 1906-Present
- None.
Websites
- None.
Unpublished
- None.
Other
- None.
Notes:
1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 268).
2: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 4).
3: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 268).
4: Myers 2003 [more], p. 37.