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Coast Scene, Bathers
James McNeill Whistler · 1884–85
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mrs. J. Cross, by November 1917; sold to P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., London, November 1, 1917 [according to Young, MacDonald, Spencer, and Miles 1980]; partial share sold to M. Knoedler and Co., New York, December 31, 1917; sold to Charles B. Eddy (1872–1951), New York, April 1918 [M. Knoedler and Co. Stock Book 6, Stock No. 14346, copy in curatorial object file]; returned to M. Knoedler and Co., New York, by January 1919; sold to R.C. and N.M. Vose Gallery, Boston, November 1919 [M. Knoedler and Co. Stock Book 6, Stock No. 14561, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Woodruff J. Parker (1880–1930), Chicago, June 5, 1922. With Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, by 1926; sold to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872–1954), Chicago, 1926 [according to Young, MacDonald, Spencer, and Miles 1980]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat 2.
Literature
Published references
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 17.
- Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, "Coast Scene: Bathers," <em>The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné</em>, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, <a href="https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y326"> https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y326</a>, as <em>Coast Scene: Bathers</em> (ill.).
- Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., <em>Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 27 (ill.), <a href="http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler">http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler</a>.
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