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Object Number

1943.624

People

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)

Title

The Storm-- Sunset

Other Titles

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

Medium

Pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

18.6 x 29 cm (7 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black and brown pastel, l.r.: butterfly monogram

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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"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

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

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