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Blue and Silver–Choppy Channel

Description:: A nearly abstract view of the rough sea, signed with the butterfly at lower left.

Signatures:: Green butterfly in lower left corner; butterfly on verso of board in black ink

Inscriptions:: Verso: 'Blue & Silver' / The Chopping Channel' / Butterfly signature

Paper/Support:: On cold-pressed, wove paper mounted overall to board. The paper support is mounted on top of a manufactured board that already had a facing paper.

Provenance:: 1899; Goupil et Cie, London 1899 [1]; From 1899 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Goupil et Cie, London in 1899 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] Undated folder sheet note, Object file. Also see Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 17, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.; [2] See note 1.; [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Exhibition History:: Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019); James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985); James McNeill Whistler Pastels, Etchings, Paintings, Watercolors (November 11, 1976 to June 24, 1977); Whistler—Landscapes and Seascapes (October 14, 1969 to September 25, 1971); Pictures, Drawings, Bronzes, Pottery, Antique Furniture, Decorative Metal Work (1898)