Dallas Public Library

After Whistler, the artist and his influence on American painting, Linda Merrill [and others]

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-263) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

After Whistler

bibliographycatalogs

52079577

Linda Merrill [and others]

"This illustrated book - published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death - addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art." "After Whistler juxtaposes fourteen of the artist's most important works with an array of pictures by thirty-eight other American painters - including Henry Ossawa Tanner, William Merritt Chase, and John Singer Sargent - to demonstrate how Whistler's American contemporaries were affected by his techniques, color palette, compositions, and subject matter. The introduction to the book provides an overview of Whistler's association with American artists and the reception of his work in the United States. The essays that follow discuss Whistler's Venetian sojourn and its effect on the American artists who flocked to that city: his relationship with Philadelphia's art community; the Whistler Memorial Exhibition held in Boston in 1904; and much more." "This volume is essential reading anyone interested in American art and Whistler's role in it's history."--Jacket

the artist and his influence on American painting

Whistler in America / Linda Merrill -- Venice, Whistler, and the American others / Marc Simpson -- Whistler and Philadelphia : a question of character / Sylvia Yount -- Rhetoric and reputation in Whistler's nocturnes / John Siewert -- The idol and his apprentices : Whistler and the Académie Carmen of Paris / Robyn Asleson -- Whistler, America, and the memorial exhibition of 1904 / Lee Glazer -- Catalogue / Lacey Taylor Jordan, Linda Merrill, and Sylvia Yount