The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

At Sea dates from the winter of 1900/1901.

At Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1642).

Images

Subject

Site

At Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Probably at sea between Marseilles and Algiers or Corsica.

Technique

Conservation History

It is on a sheet (slightly darkened) taken from Sketchbook m1643.

History

Provenance

• 1903: bought from Whistler by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), 8 May 1903;
• 1914: sold on 12 March to Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1917: sold on 13 January to Charles B. Eddy (1872-1951).
• 1938: bought on 15 April from Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia dealer, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971);
• 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art;
• 1980: moved from Alverthorpe Gallery to the National Gallery of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1642).

Exhibitions

• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 158).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1642) as 'At Sea'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Copley Society (ed.), Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels & Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 158).

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler lent by Mr. Richard Canfield Buffalo, 1911 (cat. no. 26).
• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1914 (cat. no. 28).

Websites

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