The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church' was drawn in a letter to Charles William Dowdeswell (1832-1915) in May 1884. ¹

Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church', Library of Congress

This work is catalogued fully in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 960).

Images

Subject

Site

Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church', Library of Congress

This is a sketch of Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church y305, which shows the view of Chelsea from the south bank of the River Thames, London.

Technique

Composition

Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church', Library of Congress

Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church, Freer Gallery of Art

This is a sketch of Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church y305.

History

Provenance

• 1884: sent to Charles William Dowdeswell (1832-1915), 22/24 May 1884.
• Date unknown: acquired by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Alverthorpe;
• Date unknown: deposited in the Library of Congress.

The history of this drawing is largely unknown.

Exhibitions

This letter concerned Whistler's exhibition, 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884, but was not itself exhibited.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 960) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church' ".
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 305).

Websites

• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004. GUW #08613.