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Whistler in Watercolor : : Lovely Little Games

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"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.
A new beginning / Lee Glazer -- Galleries and games / Lee Glazer -- Turn to America / Lee Glazer -- Knowledge of a lifetime / Emily Jacobson and Blythe McCarthy.
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.
Contents: Paintings.

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PUBLISHED
Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 29 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300243628
0300243626

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Glazer, Lee
Jacobson, Emily,
McCarthy, Blythe Ellen,
Roeder, Katherine,
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.

SUBJECTS
Whistler, James McNeill, -- 1834-1903 -- Exhibitions.
Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibitions.
Watercolor painting -- Washington (D.C.) -- Exhibitions.