Watching the Bees, 1896

Not on View

Medium

pastel and charcoal on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.16 × 27.78 cm (15 13/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

Accession Number

2014.136.185

Artists / Makers

Julian Alden Weir (artist) American, 1852 - 1919

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Montross Gallery
Parmelee, James

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

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

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.