Erith–Evening
date: label: Date
content: 1881-1883
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: A river scene with sailing craft near the opposite shore and a sky with low-hung gray and pink clouds; unsigned.
label: Signatures
content: Unsigned.
label: Paper/Support
content: On rough, wove paper mounted overall to board. The paper support is mounted on top of a manufactured board that already had a facing paper.
label: Provenance
content: To 1902
label: Provenance
content: Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London, to 1902 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1902 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Henry Studdy Theobald in 1902 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Purchases from Thoebald, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher No. 1, August 1902,
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] 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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-garde in Victorian London, 1883 (November 20, 2003 to April 4, 2004)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler—Landscapes and Seascapes (October 14, 1969 to September 25, 1971)
label: Exhibition History
content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 10 and 11 (February 25, 1956 to November 3, 1959)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Paintings and Drawings (December 14, 1955 to February 25, 1956)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Works of Whistler (September 22, 1947 to April 11, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
label: Exhibition History
content: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture (1887)
label: Exhibition History
content: "Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes" (May 1884)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: mounting
label: Topic
content: bone black
label: Topic
content: cerulean blue
label: Topic
content: burnt sienna
label: Topic
content: raw sienna
label: Topic
content: iron oxide red
label: Topic
content: zinc white
label: Topic
content: Mars pigment
label: Topic
content: yellow ocher
label: Topic
content: cadmium sulfide
label: Topic
content: water
label: Topic
content: night
label: Topic
content: river
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: Whistler in Watercolor
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1902.168a-c
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14.5 × 24.1 cm (5 11/16 × 9 1/2 in)