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View of the Aventine, Rome

Artist John Ruskin (English, 1819 - 1900)
Date1841
MediumGraphite with rose-gray and yellow washes on light gray paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/8 × 18 3/16 inches (30.81 × 46.2 cm)
Framed: 20 × 26 × 1 inches (50.8 × 66.04 × 2.54 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/75
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Ruskin Exhibition, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, London, February 4-March 2, 1901, no. 144, as The Aventine.

International Fine Arts Exhibition, Souvenir of the British Section, The British Fine Art Palace, Rome, April-November 1911, no. 840, as The Aventine, Rome.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 108, as The Aventine.

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as View of the Aventine.

Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25, 1990, no cat., as View of the Aventine.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 71, as View of the Aventine, Rome.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as View of the Aventine, Rome.

Provenance

Joan Severn (née Agnew, 1846-1924), Brantwood House, Coniston, Cumbria, UK, by 1901;

Ferdinand H. Davis (1903-1992), New York, by November 28, 1960;

Purchased from Ferdinand H. Davis, through Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. Davis1, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, November 28, 1960-1980 [1];

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] Getty Research Library, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966.

Published References

W.G. Collingwood, Ruskin Exhibition, exh. cat. (London: Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1901), 14, as The Aventine.

Isidore Spielmann, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Souvenir of the British Section, exh. cat. (Rome: British Fine Art Palace, 1911), 84, 415, as The Aventine, Rome.

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 7, 48-50, (repro.), as The Aventine.

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 11, 56, (repro.), as View of the Aventine.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 182, 216-18, (repro.), as View of the Aventine, Rome.

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