- Provenance
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James Staats Forbes (1823-1904), London [1]
To 1904
Obach & Co., London, to 1904 [2]From 1904 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1904 [3]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]Notes:
[1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office. Also, according to Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record, an undated note from C.L. Freer states: "From the Forbes Collection."
[2] See Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 15, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] See note 2.
[4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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James Staats Forbes 1823-1904
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Obach & Co. (C.L. Freer source) 1884-1911
- Label
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Many of the paintings Whistler executed in Pourville-sur-Mer in 1899 were completed in September or October, after most vacationers would have returned home. Grey and Gold: High Tide at Pourville exudes the off-season melancholy Whistler described in an 1896 letter to his sister-in-law: "A seaside place after the season is like a theatre in the daytime-there is an uncanny sort of loneliness about it."
- Published References
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- Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. Studies in British Art 2 vols. New Haven, 1980. vol. 2: pl. 334.
- David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1984. pp. 23, 155, pl. 64.
- With Kindest Regards: The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler 1890-1903. Washington. p. 121, fig. 33.
- Collection Area(s)
- American Art
- Web Resources
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