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Title:The Great White Way
Artist:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British, London 1889–1946 London)
Date:ca. 1919–20
Medium:Lithograph
Dimensions:22 1/2 × 13 5/8 in. (57.2 × 34.6 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 2001
Object Number:2001.152
Inscription: Signed (lower margin, in graphite): C. R. W. Nevinson; inscribed (lower margin, in black ink): To The Honourable + her honourship The Earless" / 25.XII.41; inscribed (verso, lower right, in graphite): 5/35
private collection (probably from 1941; gift of the artist); private collection, United States (until 2001; sold through Fine Art Society, London to MMA)
Manchester City Art Gallery. "Nevinson Exhibition," July–August 1920, no. 57 [possibly this work].
New York. Park Avenue Armory. "Winter Antiques Show," January 19–28, 2001, no catalogue.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," January 30–June 1, 2008, no. 43.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," September 23–December 7, 2008, no. 43.
Miami. Wolfsonian, Florida International University. "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," November 21, 2009–February 28, 2010, no. 43.
Nash and Nevinson in War and in Peace: The Graphic Work 1914–1920. Exh. cat., Leicester Galleries at the Alpine Club Gallery. London, 1977, unpaginated, no. 54, ill. (unknown edition), dates it 1920.
David Cohen inC.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Julian Honer. Exh. cat., Imperial War Museum. London, 1999, pp. 47, 140, ill. (not this edition), dates it 1920.
Jonathan Black. "Beauty, Rhythm, Strength: C. R. W. Nevinson as a Printmaker, ca. 1916–32." A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946). Ed. Michael J. K. Walsh. Newark, N.J., 2007, p. 125, dates it 1920 and notes that this work was first exhibited at the Senefelder Club in February 1920.
Samantha Rippner inRhythms of Modern Life: British Prints, 1914–1939. Ed. Clifford S. Ackley. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 2008, pp. 92, 215, no. 43, ill. pp. 93, 99 (color), dates it 1920–21.
Jonathan Black. C.R.W. Nevinson: The Complete Prints. Surrey, England, 2014, pp. 75, 84–85, 151, no. 71, ill. (color), dates it 1920 and lists edition in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Gordon Samuel. CRW Nevinson: A Printmaker in War and Peace. Exh. cat., Osborne Samuel, Ltd. London, 2014, p. 80, ill. (color) (not this edition), dates it 1920.
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British, London 1889–1946 London)
1917
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