View of the Tiber
Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 34, as View of the Tiber.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as View of the Tiber.
The artist was a Dutch landscape painter who worked in Rome and France in the classical style of Claude Lorrain. This drawing is more spontaneous than either artist’s paintings and was probably drawn from life.
With Nathan Chaikin, New York, by October 20, 1961;
Purchased from Chaikin by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 20, 1961-1980 [1];
His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] Nathan Chaikin invoice, October 20, 1961, NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy Records.
“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 23, as View of the Tiber.
Anne Charlotte Steland, Herman van Swanevelt (um 1603-1655): Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Textband (Petersburg, Germany: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010), no. Z 2, 35/N 1, pp. 69, 78, 299.
