The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0130
On Post in Camp: Third half hour
Date
On Post in Camp: Third half hour dates from 1853/1854, and was given to Absalom Baird (1824-1905), Associate Professor of Mathematics at West Point.
On Post in Camp: Third half hour, USMA
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 130).
Images
On Post in Camp: Third half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: First half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: Second half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: Third half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: Last half hour, USMA
Subject
Sitter
On Post in Camp: Third half hour, USMA
A cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point.
Technique
Composition
On Post in Camp: First half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: Second half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: Third half hour, USMA
On Post in Camp: Last half hour, USMA
This is the third in a series of drawings, On Post in Camp: First half hour m0128, On Post in Camp: Second half hour m0129, On Post in Camp: Third half hour m0130, and On Post in Camp: Last half hour m0131.
Technique
On Post in Camp: Third half hour, USMA
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 130).
Conservation History
The sketch was stuck into a scrapbook, but later removed.
History
Provenance
- 1853/1854: given to Absalom Baird (1824-1905);
- 1905: bequeathed to his son-in-law Colonel Charles Dudley Da1y (1880-1959) and his wife Beatrice (1885-1969), who gave it to West Point Museum.
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 130).
Exhibitions
As far as is known, it was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 130) as 'On Post in Camp: Third half hour'