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Whistler in watercolor : lovely little games / Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, Katherine Roeder.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, [2019]Distributor: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press.Copyright date: 2019Description: 286 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300243628
  • 0300243626
Contained works:
  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903. Paintings. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ND1839 .W46 A4 2019
Contents:
A new beginning / Lee Glazer -- Galleries and games / Lee Glazer -- Turn to America / Lee Glazer -- Knowledge of a lifetime / Emily Jacobson and Blythe McCarthy.
Summary: For renowned artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), watercolor was the medium through which he reinvented himself in the 1880s and painted his way into posterity. No one was more smitten with Whistler and his works than Gilded Age industrialist Charles Lang Freer, who amassed the world's largest collection of watercolors by the artist and included them in his bequest to the Smithsonian in 1906. Freer's collection comprises more than fifty examples of Whistler's watercolors, yet these works have never left the confines of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. This landmark book takes a fresh look at the exhibition and reception of Whistler's watercolors in Britain and the United States and provides a new scientific analysis of his materials and techniques, from the papers he used to the pigments he chose.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library New Book Shelf ND1839 .W46 A4 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001459923

"This book accompanies the exhibition Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, organized by and on view at the Freer Gallery of Art from May 18 through October 6, 2019"--Colophon.

"Unless otherwise indicated, all works are by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), are the Gift of Charles Lang Freer, and are in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-278) and index.

A new beginning / Lee Glazer -- Galleries and games / Lee Glazer -- Turn to America / Lee Glazer -- Knowledge of a lifetime / Emily Jacobson and Blythe McCarthy.

For renowned artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), watercolor was the medium through which he reinvented himself in the 1880s and painted his way into posterity. No one was more smitten with Whistler and his works than Gilded Age industrialist Charles Lang Freer, who amassed the world's largest collection of watercolors by the artist and included them in his bequest to the Smithsonian in 1906. Freer's collection comprises more than fifty examples of Whistler's watercolors, yet these works have never left the confines of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. This landmark book takes a fresh look at the exhibition and reception of Whistler's watercolors in Britain and the United States and provides a new scientific analysis of his materials and techniques, from the papers he used to the pigments he chose.

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