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Whistler in watercolor : lovely little games /

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 la...

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Corporate Authors: Freer Gallery of Art
Group Author: Glazer, Lee Lee Stephens; Jacobson, Emily; McCarthy, Blythe Ellen; Roeder, Katherine; Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.
Published: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian,
Publisher Address: Washington, DC :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Whistler, James McNeill, > 1834-1903 > Exhibitions
Freer Gallery of Art > Exhibitions
Watercolor painting > Washington D.C. > Exhibitions
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 take
Item Description: "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.
Carrier Form: 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-278) and index.
ISBN: 9780300243628
0300243626
Index Number: ND1839
CLC: J235(712)-28
Call Number: J235(712)-28/W576
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.

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