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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.175
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1897
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230342

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2100, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Centuries of Tradition, Changing Times: Art for an Uncertain Age
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
13.6 x 23.5 cm (5 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
framed: 29.5 x 40 x 4.5 cm (11 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c. Butterfly monogram
  • label: verso, on panel, printed text: THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO / "A CENTURY OF PROGRESS" / INTERNATIONAL LOAN EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS / ARTIST [typewritten:] James McNeill Whistler / TITLE [typewritten:] Beaching the Boat / LENDER'S NAME [typewritten:] Mr. & Mrs. Hunt Henderson / LENDER'S ADDRESS [typewritten:] New Orleans, La.
  • inscription: verso of panel, ink: Blue & Silver [?] / Beaching the Boat

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Hon. Judge William Evans, 1901, sold; to [Scott and Fowles, New York, 1916] sold; to Hunt Henderson, 1917, bequest; to Tulane University, 1939, sold [through Macdonald Gallery, New York]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, April 1941, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.175
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late J. McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, England, 1905), no. 55 p. 98
  • Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 407, p. 217
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, J. B. Lippincott/W. Heinemann (Philadelphia, PA and London, England, 1908), reproduced vol. II, opp. page 184
  • Bernhard Sickert, Whistler, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1908), no. 173, p. 173
  • Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I, p. 209, no. 483, and vol. II, reproduced in b/w, pl. 311
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 435-36, cat. no. 462, reproduced in b&w, p. 462

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler: First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, London, 02/22/1905 - 04/15/1905
  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, courtesy of the Henderson Family of New Orleans, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, 04/08/1937 - 04/23/1937
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2023 - 11/04/2024
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022

Subjects and Contexts

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