Palaces in the night : Whistler in Venice / Margaret F. MacDonald.

Main entry:

MacDonald, Margaret F.

Title & Author:

Palaces in the night : Whistler in Venice / Margaret F. MacDonald.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
'Arrangement in black and white': or why Whistler went to Venice -- Whistler in Venice -- The pastels -- The etchings -- Mr. Whistler's etchings of Venice -- The pastel show -- 'Arrangement in white and yellow': The second exhibition of etchings -- The 'Second Venice set' -- Nocturne: The last years -- Palaces in the night -- Letters from Venice.

Summary:

"The year 1879 found the American artist James McNeill Whistler in London, in the dire financial straits which led to his bankruptcy. In September, armed with a contract from the Fine Art Society for a set of twelve etchings, he sought refuge in Venice. With his model and mistress Maud Franklin he stayed there for some fourteen months. The unique and timeless beauty of Venice inspired some of his greatest works: atmospheric oil paintings of Venetian nights, a hundred vivid pastels, and fifty of Whistler's finest etchings." "This illustrated book discusses the whole range of Whistler's Venetian work. The views he chose ranged from quiet canals to Renaissance palaces. He found beauty in intimate scenes of ordinary life, drawing fishermen and bead-stringers at their work. Whistler's approach to Venice, and his selection and treatment of subjects, casts revealing light on this creative process and shows his changing artistic response to the city itself and to individual subjects."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0520230493
9780520230491

Subject:

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 Catalogs.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 Catalogues.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.
Whistler, James McNeill.
Venise (Italie) dans l'art Catalogues.
Bildband
Venice (Italy) In art Catalogs.
Italy Venice.
Venedig (Motiv)

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Catalog
In art.
Quotations (texts)
Catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.

Whistler in Venice

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233317
Call No.: N44.W576 A4 2001
Status: Available

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