The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sunday at Domburg dates from the summer of 1900.

Sunday at Domburg, Fogg Art Museum

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1613).

Images

Subject

Site

Sunday at Domburg, Fogg Art Museum

Domburg, a town on the coast of the Netherlands.

Technique

Technique

Sunday at Domburg, Fogg Art Museum

See discssion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1613).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler' studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1905: said to have been given by her to Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915);
• 1916: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 8 June 1916 (lot 38) and bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers jointly with Knoedler's, New York;
• 1916: sold by Knoedler's to Stephen Carlton Clark (1882-1960);
• 1917: returned and sold to Edward D. Bettens, February 1917;
• 1917: given to the Fogg Art Museum, 26 February.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1613).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited 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. 1613) as 'Sunday at Domburg'.

Books on Whistler

• Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 127-28, repr.
• Koval, Anne, Whistler in his Time, London, 1994, no. 155, repr.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 258.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 191-92.

Books, General

• Bettens, Edward Detraz, Painter and Patron, New York, 1918, p. 26, repr. f. p. 22.
• 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. 437, cat. 464, repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Oils, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1934.
• A History of American Watercolor Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1942.
• James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 36).
• Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1968 (cat. no. 69), repr.
• Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 107).
• Eitner, Lorenz (intro.) and Betsy G. Fryberger, Whistler: Themes and Variations, Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, 1978 (cat. no. 83).
• Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978.
• Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald (eds), James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 155), repr.
• Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 127-28 (no cat. no.) repr.
• Conforti, Michael, James A. Ganz, and Neil Harris, The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2006, p. 133, repr. fig. 111.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums website at harvardartmuseums.org.