The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0918
St Ives: Sunset
Date
St Ives: Sunset dates from Whistler's painting expedition to Cornwall between January and March 1884.
St Ives: Sunset, Freer Gallery of Art
This work was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 918).
Images
St Ives: Sunset, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Site
St Ives: Sunset, Freer Gallery of Art
Near the fishing town of St Ives in Cornwall, south-west England.
Technique
Technique
See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
Conservation History
The sheet is slightly browned at the edges.
History
Provenance
- By 1905: owned by Thomas Way (1837-1915), London;
- 1905: bought from his son, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), in July;
- 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 918).
Exhibitions
- 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 130) as 'A Marine Sunset'.
By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 918) as 'St Ives: Sunset'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 130) as 'A Marine Sunset'.
Books on Whistler
- Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 187, pl. 111.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.116a-c.
- Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.