The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1593
Sailboats in blue water
Date
Sailboats in blue water dates from 1899/1900.
Sailboats in blue water, Fogg Art Museum
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1593); the entry has been revised.
Images
Sailboats in blue water, Fogg Art Museum
Subject
Site
Sailboats in blue water, Fogg Art Museum
Belle-Île-en-Mer, France.
Technique
Technique
Sailboats in blue water, Fogg Art Museum
See description in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1593).
History
Provenance
- 1921: bequeathed by Antonie, Mrs E. Amsinck (d. 1921), widow of Ludwig Edwin Amsinck (d. 1897), to the Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
- 1926: sold on 26 May to the Galerie Commeter, Hamburg;
- 1927: bought (as 'Maine') through Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970) by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943), 1 December 1927;
- 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.
Earlier provenance is unknown.
Exhibitions
None known in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1593) as 'Sailboats in blue water'.
Books, General
- Jennings, Kate F., American Watercolors, New York, NY, 1995, p. 41.
- Stebbins, Theodore E., American Master Drawings and Watercolors, New York, 1976, repr. p. 223.
- Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 436-37, cat. no. 463, repr.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Gillerman, Dorothy W., (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 243.
Websites
- Harvard Art Museums website at harvardartmuseums.org.