The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Reach in Upper Thames probably dates from 1883/1885. It is probably unfinished and the brushwork is uncertain and not entirely typical.

Reach in Upper Thames, Freer Gallery of Art

This work was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 921).

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Subject

Site

Reach in Upper Thames, Freer Gallery of Art

The River Thames, upriver from London.

Technique

Technique

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
• 1905: bought in July by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 924).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

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. 924) as 'Reach in Upper Thames'.

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. 192, pl. 118.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.121a-b.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.