Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships
Framed: 20 × 26 × 1 1/4 inches (50.8 × 66.04 × 3.18 cm)
Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, September 22-December 9, 1989, unnumbered, as Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25, 1990, no cat., as Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.
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 of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 5, as Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
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 Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
Landscapes East/Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 27, 2011-April 15, 2012, no cat., as Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
The artist was a follower of Titian, the author of the landscape engraved by Cornelis Cort exhibited nearby, and the rolling landscape is very similar to the one in Cort’s print. In this drawing, man’s activities are everywhere apparent, but nature still dominates and keeps man in his place.
Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745), London, by 1745 [1];
John MacGowan (1726-1780), Edinburgh, by 1780 [2];
Possibly his posthumous sale, Estampes et recueils, London, May 13-18, 1803 or his posthumous sale, Dessins anciens et modernes de toutes les écoles, London, January 26-February 2, 1804;
With Nathan Chaikin, New York, by April 24, 1959;
Purchased from Chaikin by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, April 24, 1959-1980 [1];
His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] Lugt 2184 and 2983.
[2] Lugt 1496.
[3] NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy Records.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 9-10, 18, (repro.), as Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
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), 46-48, (repro.), as Mountain Landscape with Warriors and Ships.
