UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Bucking Horse, Wild West

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46919)
Number: 295
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 84 x 185 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.315; M.309
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)

PUBLICATION

The Bucking Horse, Wild West was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was first exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, in 1898. 9 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent an impression to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150103) and bought another from a show at Wunderlich's in 1903 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150104). 10 Another impression was shown by Obach & Co. in London in 1903. 11

After Whistler's death impressions were shown in comprehensive Memorial Exhibitions including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and, lent by Messrs F. Keppel & Co. at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 12

9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 218).

10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 276); New York 1903b (cat. no. 212).

11: London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 232).

12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 240); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 290).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler sold an impression under the title 'Wild West No. 2' on 17 November 1887 to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), for £10.10.0. 13 On 3 May 1888 he sold an impression to Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912) for the same price through H. Wunderlich & Co., New York. 14 He then sold Wunderlich's one in 1900 with the title 'Bucking horse, Wild West' at the lower price of £8.8.0 and finally, in 1901, sold them another for only £6.6.0. 15 Wunderlich's sold one - not necessarily this one - to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150104). Another early American collector was Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150102).

Whistler kept three impressions, which were bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). One of these she gave to Freer in 1904 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150103) although he already had one. The two others she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, which retained one (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150105) and sold the other (Graphic with a link to impression #K3150107).

13: GUW #13016.

14: G. Dieterlen to Whistler, GUW #07158.

15: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 6 April 1900, GUW #07322; 16 April 1901, #07330.