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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games

Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games

Glazer, Lee
Jacobson, Emily
McCarthy, Blythe

Hardcover

Art HistoryIndividual ArtistsPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 0300243626
ISBN13: 9780300243628
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: Jun 25 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 3.95
Height: 1.40 Width: 10.30 Depth: 11.30
Language: English

A focused investigation of Whistler's watercolors that introduces readers to a rarely seen aspect of the artist's creative output

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). Whistler's embrace of watercolor allowed the expatriate artist to present himself as an heir to the great Turner, while at the same time creating easily portable works that could supply an American market and, the artist hoped, help secure his art-historical legacy in his home country. Indeed, it was the American Gilded Age industrialist Charles Lang Freer who would amass the largest collection of Whistler's watercolors, eventually bequeathing them to the Smithsonian in 1906.

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