Watching the Bees

1896

Julian Alden Weir

Artist, American, 1852 - 1919

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Montross Gallery, New York); James Parmelee, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1903

  • Sixty-Eighth Exhibition, Boston Art Club, Massachusetts, 1903, no. 1

1978

  • American Pastels from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

1983

  • Sargent’s Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 25

  • American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1965

  • Hayes, Bartlett H., Jr. Drawings of the Masters: American Drawings. New York: Shorewood, 1965, p. 71, pl. 39.

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 99, no. 644.

Inscriptions

lower right in charcoal: J. Alden Weir - '96; upper verso in charcoal by unknown hand: Niagara Hotel; upper verso in blue crayon by unknown hand: 98 / 981; upper verso in graphite by unknown hand: 146W55

Wikidata ID

Q64591638

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