The Bucking Horse, Wild West | ||
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 (
) and bought another from a show at Wunderlich's in 1903 (
). 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
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3150103](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3150104](../../images/etchlink.gif)
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 (
). Another early American collector was Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (
).
Whistler kept three impressions, which were bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). One of these she gave to Freer in 1904 (
) although he already had one. The two others she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, which retained one (
) and sold the other (
).
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3150104](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3150102](../../images/etchlink.gif)
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](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3150105](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3150107](../../images/etchlink.gif)