- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.624
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- The Storm-- Sunset
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Stormy Sunset
Former Title: The Salute, Venice - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1880
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308039
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Pastel on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 18.6 x 29 cm (7 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black and brown pastel, l.r.: butterfly monogram
- Provenance
- Louis Huth. [Knoedler Gallery, New York]. W. Macbeth, sold [through his sale]; to Grenville L. Winthrop [via Martin Birnbaum], New York, NY, November 1937, 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
- 1943.624
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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"Art: Venice Pastels", The Observer [London] (London, England, February 6, 1881), supplement section, p. 1
"Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels", The Daily News [London] (London, England, January 31, 1881)
"Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels", The Times [London] (February 9, 1881), no. 30, 113, p. 4, mentioned p. 4
"Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels", Pictorial World (February 5, 1881)
"Mr. Whistler's 'Venice Pastels'", The Queen (February 12, 1881), p. 171, mentioned p. 171
"Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels.", Pan (February 5, 1881)
"Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite", Punch (February 12, 1881), p. 69, p. 69, referred to as "Boat Ahoy!"
[Unidentified article], The Whitehall Review (February 5, 1881)
Thomas R. Way, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1903), p. 93
Mortimer Menpes, Whistler as I Knew Him, Adam and Charles Black (London, 1904), reproduced facing p. 18
Thomas R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, John Lane Co. (New York, 1912), pp. 52 - 55, reproduced p. 52, no. 28
Denys Sutton, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolors, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1966), no. 90, p. 193, reproduced in color as plate 90
Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 244
Geneviève Monnier, Pastels: From the 16th to the 20th Century, Skira Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1984), pp. 53 and 55
Pierre Cabanne, Whistler, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1985), p. 89, ill.
Pierre Cabanne, Whistler, Marshall Cavendish Ltd. (London, England, 1985), p. 89, ill.
Margaretta M. Lovell, A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL and London, England, 1989), p. 55, fig. 60
Robin Spencer, ed., Whistler: A Retrospective, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), pp. 176 - 177
Robert H. Getscher, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels (New York, 1991), pp. 26,, 100 - 101, 178, 181, 186, no. 31
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1992), p. 418
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 304 - 305, no. 808, reproduced
Alastair Grieve, Whistler's Venice, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2000), fig. 140 (color), p. 117
Margaret F. MacDonald, Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, exh. cat., Lund Humphries (Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, 2001), fig. 60 (color), p. 54
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), p. 466, fig. 198
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), p. 482, fig. 1
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. 416-419, cat. no. 446, reproduced in color, p. 418
- Exhibition History
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Venice Pastels, The Fine Art Society, London, 01/29/1881 - 04/01/1881
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
- Subjects and Contexts
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Collection Highlights
Google Art Project
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