The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 277
Grey and Green: Cornwall
Date
Grey and Green: Cornwall dates from Whistler's visit to Cornwall from January to March 1884, and was exhibited in 1889.
Images
Grey and Green: Cornwall, Whereabouts unknown
Subject
Titles
Possible variations on the title include:
- Remotely possibly 'Blau und Grun: Cornwall' (1888, III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Munich). 1
- 'Grey and Green – Cornwall' (1889, Wunderlich's). 2
- 'Grey and Green: Cornwall' (1980, YMSM). 3
Description
Unknown.
In Whistler's list of paintings exhibited at Munich the size of the painting 'Bleu et Vert, Cornwall' when framed is given as 44 x 35 cm. 4 When compared with the sizes of known pictures in the same list (i.e. Grey and Brown: The Sad Sea Shore y330) this suggests an actual size of about 12.5 x 21.7 cm (5 x 8 ½").
Site
Probably in or near St Ives, Cornwall, UK.
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
Conservation History
Unknown.
Frame
Unknown.
History
Provenance
- 1889: possibly sold to Henry Osbourne Havemeyer (1847-1907).
In 1889 Wunderlich's wrote to Whistler that H. O. Havemeyer had bought 'Grey & green - Cornwall' for £47.5.0 less 10 percent commission. 5
Exhibitions
- 1888: possibly III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 65) as 'Blau und Grun: Cornwall'.
- 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 24) as 'Grey and Green – Cornwall'.
A painting listed as 'Bleu et Vert, Cornwall' was valued at £15.0.0 for the Munich exhibition. 6 It is not certain that it was the same painting shown at Wunderlich's in 1889 as 'Grey and Green – Cornwall'.
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. 277) as 'Grey and Green: Cornwall'.
Authored by Whistler
- None.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Possibly III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 65) as 'Blau und Grun: Cornwall'.
- “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 24) as 'Grey and Green – Cornwall'.
Journals 1855-1905
- None.
Monographs
- None.
Books on Whistler
- None.
Books, General
- None.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- None.
Journals 1906-Present
- None.
Websites
- None.
Unpublished
- None.
Other
- None.
Notes:
1: III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 65).
2: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 24).
3: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 277).
4: [June 1888], GUW #04203.
5: April 1889, GUW #07175; 20 June 1889, #07180.
6: Whistler to R. Koehler, [June 1888], GUW #04204.