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Artist(s): James McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, Jul 11, 1834 - Jul 17, 1903, London, England)
Title: Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge
Date: 1859-63
Dimensions: 25 1/8 in. x 29 15/16 in. (63.82 cm x 76.04 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of Cornelius N. Bliss, 1928.55

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

A Loan Exhibition of 19th Century Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American, Whitney Museum of American Art, 3/28/1933 - 4/27/1933
A Century of American Landscape Painting, 1800 to 1900, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1/19/1938 - 2/27/1938
The Sources of Modern Painting, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 3/1/1939 - 4/10/1939
An Exhibition of Great Paintings in aid of the Canadian Red Cross, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 11/15/1940 - 12/15/1940
Tenth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition: 1939-1946, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 11/1/1946 - 12/15/1946
Whistler, 1834-1903, William Macbeth Gallery (William Macbeth, Inc.), 4/17/1947 - 5/14/1947
James McNeill Whistler, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 5/1/1949 - 6/13/1949
America and Impressionism, The Dayton Art Institute, 11/18/1951 - 12/16/1951
Loan to Stevens Memorial Library, Stevens Memorial Library, 3/13/1952 - 5/20/1952
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Exhibition, Abbot Academy, 10/16/1952 - 11/21/1952
Expatriates: Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 1/4/1953 - 1/25/1953
Loan to Stevens Memorial Library, Stevens Memorial Library, 3/3/1953 - 6/30/1953
125 Years of American Art, The Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 9/16/1953 - 10/11/1953
Exhibition of Paintings from The Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, Western Canada Art Circuit, 11/15/1953 - 6/3/1954
Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1/7/1954 - 5/23/1954
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Vassar College Exhibition, Vassar College, 5/1/1957 - 5/27/1957
American Classics of the Nineteenth Century, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 10/17/1957 - 6/25/1958
Living with Design, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/22/1959 - 10/23/1959
A Change of Sky, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 3/4/1960 - 4/3/1960
James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and other Works, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 9/1/1960 - 9/24/1960
American Painting: 1857-1869, The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, 1/12/1962 - 2/18/1962
Birth of Impressionism, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., 3/6/1963 - 4/7/1963
Four Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 11/27/1963 - 1/19/1964
Impressionism and its Roots [Impressionism and Its Sources], The University of Iowa Gallery of Art, 11/8/1964 - 12/6/1964
American Painting from 1830, Everson Art Museum, 12/3/1965 - 1/16/1966
Art of the United States: 1670-1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, 9/28/1966 - 11/27/1966
Focus on Light, New Jersey State Museum, 5/20/1967 - 9/10/1967
James McNeill Whistler, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 1/12/1968 - 4/28/1968
Bicentenary Exhibition 1768 - 1968, Royal Academy of Arts, 12/10/1968 - 3/2/1969
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 10/1/1969 - 11/27/1969
From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Columbia University, 3/4/1971 - 5/23/1971
Whistler in New England Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11/22/1977 - 2/5/1978
Mary Cassatt, James A. McNeill Whistler, John S. Sargent, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/9/1981 - 2/8/1981
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/1983 - 5/1/1983
Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., 11/30/1984 - 12/27/1984
The American City, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/18/1991 - 3/10/1991
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
James McNeill Whistler: Retrospective Exhibition 1994-5, Tate Gallery, 10/12/1994 - 8/20/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Songs of Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 6/6/1998 - 1/3/1999
Framework: American Pictures and Frames, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/16/1999 - 4/4/1999
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
Foundations: Building the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/12/2001 - 4/1/2001
Place and Perceptions, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/16/2002 - 7/31/2002
Working from Nature, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/19/2003 - 1/4/2004
Art, Artists, and the Addison: Building a Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/30/2004 - 7/31/2004
Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, 6/12/2004 - 5/15/2005
Toward Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/23/2005 - 3/26/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
Mix and Match: A Conversation between Paintings and Works on Paper, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/23/2007 - 4/8/2007
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
80 @ 80 , Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/15/2011 - 12/31/2011
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2013 - 3/10/2013
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/27/2013 - 7/31/2013
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2013 - 3/1/2015
James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, NHK, 9/13/2014 - 3/1/2015
Searching for the Real, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/30/2015 - 7/31/2015
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 3/13/2016
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/30/2016 - 7/31/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2017 - 7/31/2018
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/8/2021 - 2/6/2022

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