The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1588
The Rows, Chester
Date
The Rows, Chester probably dates from September 1900.
The Rows, Chester, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1588).
Images
The Rows, Chester, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Subject
Site
The Rows, Chester, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The city of Chester, England.
Technique
Technique
The Rows, Chester, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1588).
History
Provenance
- 1904: bought from Obach, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
- 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Exhibitions
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to 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. 1588) as 'The Rows, Chester'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 29.
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 192, 298, repr. pl. 119.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.89,as 'The Rows, Chester'.