The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Beaching the boat dates from Whistler's painting expedition to Cornwall between January and March 1884.

Beaching the boat, RISD

This work was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 916).

Images

Subject

Site

Beaching the boat, RISD

The bay near the busy fishing town of St Ives in Cornwall, south-west England.

Technique

Conservation History

Beaching the boat, RISD

The paper is slightly browned around the edges.

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1943: sold by Miss Philip to Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
• 1943: sold to David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles (1904-1999);
• 1961: bought by Agnew's, London dealers;
• 1962: sold to a private collector;
• 1970: given to the Rhode Island school of Design.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 916).

Exhibitions

No record has been located of an exhibition 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. 916) as 'Beaching the boat'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Landscape and Leisure, Rhode Island School of Design Museum fo Art, 2015.

Websites

• RISD website at https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection.