Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 1834-1903 Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Phillips Academy Addison Gallery of American Art Andover Massachusetts 01810 Accession Number: 1928.55
Date:
1859-1863
Notes:
Coll. Catalog, 1931.
Exh. Cat., a Century of American Landscape Painting (1800-1900), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1938, No. 39.
Young, Andrew McClaren and Margaret MacDonald, et. al., "The paintings of James McNeill Whistler," New Haven, Yale University Press, 1980, #33.
Exh.catalog "Am. Ptg. from 1830" Everson Mus., Syracuse,ny, 1965
"Addison Gallery of American Art, 65 Years: A Selective Catalogue," Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1996, pg. 490.
Image on file.
Young, Andrew McClaren, et. al., "The paintings of James McNeill Whistler," New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1980, vol. 2, plate 366.
"Addison Gallery of American Art, 65 Years: A Selective Catalogue," Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1996, pg. 490.
(Lower right:) Whistler 1863 signed
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Summary:
View looking down on the old wooden Battersea Bridge of 1771, with boatmen waiting on the shore with their boat, while a fellow boatman drives a barge loaded with barrels down the river.
