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Sargent, Whistler & Venetian glass : American artists and the magic of Murano

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Sargent, Whistler & Venetian glass : American artists and the magic of Murano / edited by Crawford Alexander Mann III ; with contributions by Sheldon Barr, Melody Barnett Deusner, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Crawford Alexander Mann III, Brittany Emens Strupp.

Publication

Washington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; Princeton : in association with Princeton University Press, [2021]
©2021

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335 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

"Experience the spectacle of Venice and its rich history as a glassmaking capital through Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. This exhibition catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the American Grand Tour to Venice in the late nineteenth century, revealing the glass furnaces and their new creative boom as a vibrant facet of the city\u0027s allure. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue features paintings and prints by John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Frank Duveneck, Thomas Moran, William Merritt Chase, Maurice Prendergast, Maxfield Parrish, Louise Cox, and Ellen Day Hale alongside rarely seen Venetian glass mosaic portraits and glass cups, vases, and urns by the leading Murano glassmakers. Reuniting these exquisitely crafted objects with paintings, etchings, and drawings from the same milieu, this catalogue recovers and explains their past significance. Five new essays from experts in the history of American art and of Venetian glass provide the first combined survey of fine and decorative arts from the Venetian Grand Tour, offering a unique and valuable contribution to the fields of American Art and nineteenth-century cultural history. Ultimately, this project demonstrates the lasting impact of the nineteenth-century Venetian glass revival on American art, literature, and education, as well as period concepts of gender and social class."--

Alternative Title

Sargent, Whistler and Venetian glass
American artists and the magic of Murano

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, October 8, 2021 to May 8, 2022. Also traveling to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, June 25 to September 11, 2022; and the Ca\u0027 Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d\u0027Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy, October 15, 2022 to January 8, 2023"-- Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian\u0027s Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.

Call Number

NK5152.M85

ISBN

9780691222677
0691222673

LCCN

2021016688

OCLC

1246673952
on1246673952

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries