The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Campo Sta Marta – Winter Evening dates from 1879/1880.

Campo Sta Marta – Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 753).

Images

Subject

Site

Campo Sta Marta – Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

It is a view north along the Fondamenta de l'Arzere to the campo by the church of Santa Marta. This was a poor fishing quarter, between the Piazzale Roma and the Zattere, in Venice, Italy. ¹ It was not, as Whistler originally called it, 'Martin', a fact that was pointed out in the newspapers, and gleefully dismissed as irrelevant by Whistler. ²

Technique

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 753).

Frame

Campo Sta Marta – Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

History

Provenance

• 1882: bought from Whistler by Louisine Waldron Havemeyer (1855-1929);
• 1917: given to 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. 753).

Exhibitions

Campo Sta Marta – Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 51) as 'Campo Sta. Martin – Winter Evening'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 753) as 'Campo Sta Marta – Winter Evening'.

Authored by Whistler

• Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, pp. 70-71.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 51) as 'Campo Sta. Martin – Winter Evening'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., "Fine Arts. Mr. Whistler's 'Venice Pastels' ", The World, London, 2 February 1881. [9 and 16 February 1881].

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 51, 191, repr. pl. 37, view repr. pl. 39.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 39-40, 44, 99, repr. pl. 40.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 266, pl. 260.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1917.7a-b.