- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.622
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- Chelsea Fruit Shop
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Chelsea
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1886-1888
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308031
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Pastel on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 16.1 x 24.8 cm (6 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black chalk, c.r.: butterfly monogram
- Provenance
- Arthur H. Studd; W. P. Winchester; his sale to Colnaghi, London dealers, April 28, 1925; their transfer to Knoedler, New York; their sale to Hunt Henderson, New Orleans, April 20, 1925; his bequest to Tulane University, 1939; its sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1941; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.622
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 244
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), pp. 412-413, no. 1117, reproduced
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 427, cat. no. 454, reproduced in b&w
- Exhibition History
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American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
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