The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment dates from 1885, and was done when Whistler was out walking with Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913). ¹

Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment, Clark Art Institute

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1058).

Images

Subject

Site

Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment, Clark Art Institute

Chelsea Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames, with the Albert Bridge in the background.

Technique

Technique

Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment, Clark Art Institute

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1058).

History

Provenance

• 1889: bought from Wunderlich's, New York, by Alfred Corning Clark (1844-1896);
• 1896: passed by family descent to his son, Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956);
• 1919: R. S. Clark married Francine Clark;
• 1955: given by R. S. Clark to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Insitute.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1058).

Exhibitions

• 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 8) as 'Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment'.
• 1887: Probably Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 176) as 'Blanc et argent: Le Quai (Chelsea)'.
• 1888: Possibly III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 36) as 'Grau und Silber: Chelsea'.
• 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 6) as 'Grey and Silver – Chelsea Embankment'.

The New York Herald, 2 March 1889, described it as 'worthy of particular mention ... a scene in watercolor on the Chelsea Embankment'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1058) as 'Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 8) as 'Pink and silver – Chelsea, the Embankment'.
• Probably Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 176) as 'Blanc et argent: Le Quai (Chelsea)'.
• Possibly III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 36) as 'Grau und Silber: Chelsea'.
• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 6) as 'Grey and Silver – Chelsea Embankment'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• New York Herald, New York, 2 March 1889.

Books on Whistler

• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 72.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (cat. no. 50), repr. p. 107.