The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Winter Evening dates from Whistler's time in Venice, late 1879-1880.

Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 755).

Images

Subject

Site

Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

A view from the Ponte de l'Avogaria, looking south along the Rio de l'Avogaria to the Ponte Sartorio, in one of Whistler's favourite hunting grounds, to west and south of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. ¹

Technique

Technique

Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 755).

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. 755).

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 50) as '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. 755) as 'Winter Evening'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 50) as 'Winter Evening'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• Anon., 'An Impressionist', Our Continent, 12 July 1882, pp. 12-14, at p. 13, repr. p. 12.
• Anon., Artist, vol. 21, no. 217, 1898, pp. 42-44, woodcut repr.

Books on Whistler

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 225, fig. 6.5.
• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 48-49, pl. 35, view repr. pl. 34.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 27, 39, 55, 59, repr. pl. 27, view repr. pl. 26.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 92.
• 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. 265, pl. 258.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1917.5a-b.