The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Marsh in Zeeland dates from about 1900.

Marsh in Zeeland, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1618).

Images

Subject

Site

Marsh in Zeeland, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The province of Zeeland, in the south-west of the Netherlands, consists of a number of islands and peninsulas and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg.

Technique

Technique

Marsh in Zeeland, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

This is a vignetted sketch, possibly unfinished. See discussion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1618).

History

Provenance

• 1931: bequeathed by James Parmelee (1855-1931) to the Corcoran Museum of Art;
• 2015: after the Corcoran Museum of Art closed in 2014, transferred to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

The early provenance is not known.

Exhibitions

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. 1618) as 'Marsh in Zeeland'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 38).
• , Expatriates: Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, 1953.
• Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978.
• Simmonds, Linda Crocker, et al., American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983 p. 74 (cat. no. 464), repr.

Websites

• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC website at nga.gov.