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The woman in white : Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler

Title
The woman in white : Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler / Margaret F. MacDonald ; with contributions by Charles Brock, Patricia de Montfort, Joanna Dunn, Grischka Petri, Aileen Ribeiro, Joyce H. Townsend.
Author
MacDonald, Margaret F.
Publication
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; London : Royal Academy of Arts ; New Haven [Connecticut] ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Brock, Charles, 1959-
  • Montfort, Patricia de
  • Dunn, Joanna, 1976-
  • Petri, Grischka
  • Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944-
  • Townsend, Joyce
  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
  • National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.
  • Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.
Description
231 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
In 1860, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met and began a professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that challenged viewers with its associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This illustrated volume provides an account of Hiffernan's partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s, a period when Whistler was forging his reputation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. With insights into the creation, marketing, and cultural context of Whistler's iconic works, this study also traces their resonance for his fellow artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and Gustav Klimt. Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (23.02.-23.05.2022) / National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA (03.07.-10.10.2022).
Alternative Title
Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
Subject
  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 > Influence
  • Hiffernan, Joanna
  • Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
  • Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Artistic collaboration
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Connected to an exhibition organized by and scheduled to open in 2022 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Kaywin Feldman, Director, National Gallery of Art, Rebecca Salter, President, Royal Academy of Arts -- Preface / Margaret F. MacDonald, University of Glasgow, Ann Dumas, Royal Academy of Arts, Charles Brock, National Gallery of Art -- Whistler and the woman in white / Margaret F. MacDonald -- Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler : an artistic partnership / Margaret F. MacDonald -- Painting Joanna Hiffernan / Margaret F. MacDonald, Joanna Dunn, and Joyce H. Townsend -- Plates -- "A great sensation" : women in white in late Victorian literature and popular culture / Patricia de Montfort -- Fashioning white in the work of Whistler and his contemporaries / Aileen Ribeiro -- The "symphonies in white" : display, sale, and reproduction / Grischka Petri -- A short history of the woman in white / Charles Brock -- Appendix of archival materials -- List of plates -- Notes/abbreviations -- Selected bibliography.
Call Number
JQF 21-495
ISBN
  • 0300254504
  • 9780300254501
LCCN
2020935712
OCLC
1143643620
Author
MacDonald, Margaret F., author.
Title
The woman in white : Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler / Margaret F. MacDonald ; with contributions by Charles Brock, Patricia de Montfort, Joanna Dunn, Grischka Petri, Aileen Ribeiro, Joyce H. Townsend.
Publisher
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; London : Royal Academy of Arts ; New Haven [Connecticut] ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Brock, Charles, 1959- contributor.
Montfort, Patricia de, contributor.
Dunn, Joanna, 1976- contributor.
Petri, Grischka, contributor.
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944- contributor.
Townsend, Joyce, contributor.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 21-495
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