About the Artwork
Salute Dawn
1879
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Etching with drypoint
Image: 5 × 8 inches (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
2017.25
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Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."
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Stamped, in black, verso: Harris Whittemore (Lugt suppl.1384a)
Provenance
Harris Whittemore [1864-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA) Lugt suppl.1384a
by descent to Thyrza S. Whittemore [b.1951] (Middlebury, Connecticut, USA), daughter of Robert Napier Whittemore [1921-2010] (Naugatuck Connecticut, USA), granddaughter of Harris Whittemore, Jr. [c. 1894-1974] (Naugatuck,Connecticut, USA), and great-granddaughter of Harris Whittemore [1864-1927]
(Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York, USA)
2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Myers, Kenneth John. "Do What Mr. Whistler Wants: How His Prints Should be Framed, Part 1, 1859-83," Print Quarterly 39, no. 1 (2022): pp. 54, 65-67 (ill.).
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Salute Dawn, 1879, etching with drypoint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 2017.25.
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