The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Seashore probably dates from 1885.

The Seashore, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1031).

Images

Subject

Site

The Seashore, Freer Gallery of Art

Probably the coast near Dieppe, a French town, port and holiday resort.

Technique

Technique

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

• 1901: with the Goupil Gallery, London;
• 1902: bought from William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), art dealer, London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, August 1902;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1031).

Exhibitions

• 1901: probably Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1901 (cat. no. 31) as 'The Seashore'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 147) as 'The Sea Shore'.
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 104) as 'The Sea Shore'.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be exhibited in another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1031) as 'The Seashore'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 20) as 'Note in red and blue – Dieppe'
• Probably Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1901 (cat. no. 31) as 'The Seashore'.
• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 147) as 'The Sea Shore'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 104) as 'The Sea Shore'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Studio, vol. 25, March 1902, repr. p. 2 as 'The Sea Shore'.

Books on Whistler

• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 189, pl. 113.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.144a-c.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.