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Whistler in watercolor : lovely little games

Title
Whistler in watercolor : lovely little games / Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, Katherine Roeder.
Author
Freer Gallery of Art, author, host institution
Publication
  • Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, [2019]
  • New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Glazer, Lee (Lee Stephens)
  • Jacobson, Emily
  • McCarthy, Blythe Ellen
  • Roeder, Katherine
  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.
Description
286 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits; 29 cm
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "With 250 full-color illustrations"--Page 4 of Cover
  • "Freer/Sackler Smithosonian"--Page 4 of Cover
  • "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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-278) and index.
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.
Call Number
JQF 19-1145
ISBN
  • 9780300243628
  • 0300243626
LCCN
2018060591
OCLC
1055261695
Author
Freer Gallery of Art, author, host institution.
Title
Whistler in watercolor : lovely little games / Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, Katherine Roeder.
Publisher
Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, [2019]
Distributor
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-278) and index.
Added Author
Glazer, Lee (Lee Stephens), author.
Jacobson, Emily, author.
McCarthy, Blythe Ellen, author.
Roeder, Katherine, author.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903. Paintings. Selections.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-1145
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