From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum | Busch-Reisinger Museum | Arthur M. Sackler Museum Close Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link View Citation Reuse via IIIF Download Zoom In Zoom Out Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.175 People James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England) Title Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1897 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230342 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on wood panel Dimensions 13.6 x 23.5 cm (5 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.) framed: 29.5 x 40 x 4.5 cm (11 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.c. Butterfly monogram label: verso, on panel, printed text: THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO / "A CENTURY OF PROGRESS" / INTERNATIONAL LOAN EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS / ARTIST [typewritten:] James McNeill Whistler / TITLE [typewritten:] Beaching the Boat / LENDER'S NAME [typewritten:] Mr. & Mrs. Hunt Henderson / LENDER'S ADDRESS [typewritten:] New Orleans, La. inscription: verso of panel, ink: Blue & Silver [?] / Beaching the Boat Provenance Purchased from the artist by Hon. Judge William Evans, 1901, sold; to [Scott and Fowles, New York, 1916] sold; to Hunt Henderson, 1917, bequest; to Tulane University, 1939, sold [through Macdonald Gallery, New York]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, April 1941, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.175 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late J. McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, England, 1905), no. 55 p. 98 Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 407, p. 217 Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, J. B. Lippincott/W. Heinemann (Philadelphia, PA and London, England, 1908), reproduced vol. II, opp. page 184 Bernhard Sickert, Whistler, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1908), no. 173, p. 173 Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I, p. 209, no. 483, and vol. II, reproduced in b/w, pl. 311 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. 435-36, cat. no. 462, reproduced in b&w, p. 462 Exhibition History Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler: First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, London, 02/22/1905 - 04/15/1905 Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, courtesy of the Henderson Family of New Orleans, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, 04/08/1937 - 04/23/1937 Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977 For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022 Subjects and Contexts Collection Highlights Google Art Project This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Citation "Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) , 1943.175,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Sep 24, 2022, https://hvrd.art/o/230342. Cancel Harvard Art Museums Log in to the Harvard Art Museums Please enter your information below Username or Email Password Remember me Forgot your password? Don’t have an account? 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