Campo Sta. Marta&#151;Winter Evening
date: label: Date
content: 1879-1880
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Label
content: Several progressive reviewers defended the sketchiness of Whistler's Venice pastels. Writing in the British Architect, E. W. Godwin admitted that "some of the drawings at first sight look like slight scribbles in blue, white, and black on brown or grey paper, just as if made in a moment to jot down a passing effect," but insisted that what appears "slight is the evident outcome of much thought, the scribble has no scribbling in it, and the colour is often attained by interweaving other colours, and breaking it all in lovely though measured spray over the brown or grey ground."
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content: Quotations from E. W. Godwin, "Notes of Current Events," British Architect, February 4, 1881.
label: Provenance
content: To 1917
label: Provenance
content: Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer (1855-1929), New York to 1917 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1917 to 1919
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content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer in 1917 [2]
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content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
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content: Notes:
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content: [1] See Accession List, Collections Management office, as well as Original Whistler List, pg. 16, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
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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: Whistler in Venice: The Pastels (January 19 to June 15, 2003)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer (1855-1929) (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: winter
label: Topic
content: night
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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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: F1917.7a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon and pastel on brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20.8 x 28 cm (8 3/16 x 11 in)