Documents associated with: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884
Record 8 of 69
System Number: 03603
Date: 4 January [1884][1]
Author: JW
Place: St Ives
Recipient: Ernest George Brown[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 9/12
Document Type: ALS
Dear Mr Brown -
Your card[3] has been forwarded to me here -
Kindly write to me at once as my movements are uncertain - and am tremendously busy with lots of pictures[4] of all kinds -
Yours truly -
J McNeill Whistler
Jan 4.[5]
14. Barnoon Terrace. St Ives. Cornwall -
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Notes:
1. 4 January [1884]
Year dated from address. JW spent January 1884 at St Ives in Cornwall working with Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), artist [more], and Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), artist and writer on art [more].
2. Ernest George Brown
Ernest George Brown (1853 or 1854-1915), assistant manager at the Fine Art Society [more].
3. card
Not located.
4. lots of pictures
Numerous small scale works in oil, such as The Angry Sea (YMSM 282), and in watercolour, such as Sunrise; gold and grey (M.917), reveal this as an important period in JW's artistic development (see YMSM 263-288; M.915-921). Many of them were exhibited in 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884.
5. Jan 4.
Written diagonally across lower left margin.