Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach

1. The artist, from 1863 to about 1889; sold to Mrs. Aglaia Coronio (born Ionides, 1834–1906), London, from about 1889 to 1892 [according to <a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=07900">letter from James McNeill Whistler to Aglaia Coronio, undated (December 1888?), GUW 07900, note 3</a>; <a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=00693">letter from James McNeill Whistler to Aglaia Coronio, undated (1889?), GUW 00693, note 3</a>; <a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=11034">letter from Aglaia Coronio to James McNeill Whistler, undated (1889?), GUW 11034, note 4</a>; <a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=00691">letter from James McNeill Whistler to Aglaia Coronio, dated June 2 (1889), GUW 00691, note 3</a>]; consigned to Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, by May 30, 1892; sold to Mrs. Potter Palmer (Bertha Palmer, born Honoré, 1849–1918), Chicago, May 30, 1892, for £450 [Goupil & Cie / Boussod, Valadon & Co. Stock Books, Livre no. 13, 1891–1895, p. 97, no. 22337, as <em>Old Battersea Chelsea</em>, Special Collections, Getty Research Institute, copy in curatorial object file; <a href="https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/recno/display/?cid=05742">letter from Boussod, Valadon and Co. to James McNeill Whistler, dated May 28, 1892, GUW 05742</a>]; by descent to her sons, Honoré Palmer (1874–1964) and Potter Palmer II (1875–1943), 1918; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, England, The Royal Academy of the Arts, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of the Arts: The Ninety–Ninth, 1867, cat. no. 243, as Battersea.
• Paris, France, Palais Royal: Galerie D Orleans, Exposition Universelle De 1867,
• London, England, Queen’s Square, College for Working Men and Women, 1889. cat. no. 77, as The Old Battersea Bridge.
• London England, Goupil Gallery, Nocturnes, Marines, and Chevalet Pieces: J. McNeil Whistler, Chelsea, cat. no. 36, lent by Madame Coronio.
• Boston, Copley Hall, <em>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler: Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Drawings</em>, Feb. 1904, cat. 70, as <em>The Thames</em> (organized by the Copley Society).
• Paris, France, Palais de l’Ecole des Beaux–Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, May 1905, cat. no. 58, as Sur la Tamise (On the Thames), lent by Mrs. Potter Palmer.
• Chicago, The University of Chicago Renaissance Society, Wieboldt Hall, Summer Exhibition: Sea and Land and City Streets, June 8–Aug. 30, 1933, cat. no. 7.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. no. 423.
• San Francisco, M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings, June 7–July 7, 1935, cat. no. 242, ill.
• Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Main Currents in the Development of American Painting: Inaugural Exhibition of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 16–Mar. 1, 1936, cat. no. 50, ill.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. no. 3.
• Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940.

• Copley Society, <em>Loan Collection [of] Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler</em>, exh. cat. (Copley Society, 1904), 10, cat. 70, as <em>The Thames</em>.
• Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist’s Works (Moffat, Yard and Co., 1907), no. 70, 167.
• Bernhard Sickert, Whistler (London: Duckworth & Co., New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1908), nos. 12, 27 and 105.
• Joseph and Elizabeth R. Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols. (London: William Heinemann and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1908), vol. 1, 78–79, 144.
• Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, (Chicago, 1909), 57, no. 90.
• “Summer at the Institute,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 15, no. 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1921): 158–59 (ill.).
• “The Potter Palmer Collection of Paintings,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 16, no. 3 (May 1922), 37–38.
• James W. Lane, Whistler (Crown Publishers, 1942), 35, 60.
• Andrew McLaren Young, James McNeill Whistler, an Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English Speaking Union of the United States (Great Britain: W.S. Cowell, 1960), 37–38, no. 8.
• Denys Sutton, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler (London: Country Life, 1963), 41–42.
• Frederick A. Sweet, James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1968), 54–57, no. 4.
• John Shapley, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists, 4 vols. (1934; repr. New York: Arno Press, 1970), 182–220.

Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water

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Butterfly

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Design cover for West Point Song of the Graduates

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Coast Scene, Bathers

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The Artist in His Studio

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Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

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Butterfly

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Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea

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