Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000649Coast Scene, Bathers
Inscriptions
Butterfly monogram, lower right
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat 2.
Publications
Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 17. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, "Coast Scene: Bathers," The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y326, as Coast Scene: Bathers (ill.). Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 27 (ill.), http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
- Date
- 1884–85
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 13.3 × 21.9 cm (5 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Walter S. Brewster Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.208
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