James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery
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Author: Peter Black, hardcover, 218 pages, ISBN: 0966285972
100 years after his death, James McNeill Whistler remains a fascinating, complicated, and controversial figure. He was an American who studied and worked in Paris - which was the cultural capital of 19th-century Europe - and for long periods in London, a wealthier city where artists could make substantial fortunes. He first arrived in Paris in 1855 at the moment when the conventional tradition of literary/historical figure painting represented by Delacroix and Ingres was in its last stages and would shortly - partly through Whistler's influence - be replaced by a range of subjects more concerned with intrinsic visual effect.
100 years after his death, James McNeill Whistler remains a fascinating, complicated, and controversial figure. He was an American who studied and worked in Paris - which was the cultural capital of 19th-century Europe - and for long periods in London, a wealthier city where artists could make substantial fortunes. He first arrived in Paris in 1855 at the moment when the conventional tradition of literary/historical figure painting represented by Delacroix and Ingres was in its last stages and would shortly - partly through Whistler's influence - be replaced by a range of subjects more concerned with intrinsic visual effect.
