Ruins in Moonlight
Framed: 14 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 3/4 inches (36.83 x 41.91 x 1.91 cm)
Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 95, as Ruins in Moonlight.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 11-December 6, 1987, no. 96, as Ruins in Moonlight.
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 Ruins in Moonlight.
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, hors cat., as Ruins in Moonlight.
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 Ruins in Moonlight.
Charles Branwhite (1817-1880), Bristol, UK, by 1880;
Robert Frank (1924-2019), New York, by May 26, 1959;
Purchased from Frank by Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. 705D, May 26, 1959-October 22, 1959 [1];
Purchased from Durlacher Brothers by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 22, 1959-1980;
His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 47, as Ruins in Moonlight.
Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 218-19, (repro.), as by John Martin, as Ruins in Moonlight.
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), 8, 11, 48, (repro.), as Ruins in Moonlight.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 131, 201, (repro.), as by John Martin, as Ruins in Moonlight.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 113, (repro.), as attributed to John Martin, as Ruins in Moonlight.
