Riverbank

Artist Jan Josephsz. van Goyen (Dutch, 1596 - 1656)

Date1651

MediumBlack chalk and brown wash on paper

DimensionsUnframed: 4 7/16 x 7 15/16 inches (11.27 x 20.16 cm)
Framed: 12 1/4 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches (31.12 x 39.37 x 3.18 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/30

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 35, as River Bank.

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 14, as River Bank.

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 18, 2013-June 15, 2014, no cat., as Riverbank.

Gallery Label

Van Goyen was one of the most prolific Dutch 17th-century landscape painters. His drawings, such as this example, are like his paintings in their limited colors and lively calligraphy. Like his contemporary Salomon van Ruysdael, he effectively evokes the flat, watery scenery and gray skies of Holland. The present drawing is one of a series of studies the artist made on a journey from Amsterdam to the river Rhine on the German border in 1650-51.

Provenance

With Joseph Fach, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, by May 14, 1956 [1];

Purchased from Fach by Adolph Loewi, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, stock no. 13405, May 14, 1956-February 26, 1957, as River Landscape with Boatmen [2];

Purchased from Loewi by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, February 26, 1957-1980 [3];

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

NOTES:

[1] Frick Art Reference Library, New York, MS.129 Loewi-Robertson Archive, Box 32, ledger 1932-1952, copies in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 25, 27, (repro.), as River Bank.

Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as River Bank.

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), 169, (repro.), as Riverbank.

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), 77, (repro.), as Riverbank.

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