Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, James Abbott McNeill Whistler On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also visible as a single large image on Wikimedia Commons (5mb). Original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I stop to be stunned by Read More …
Etchings, for me, have a kind of visual magic. There is something about the character of etched lines that is entrancing in a way quite distinct from other forms of drawing or graphics. I find it hard to isolate exactly why. Partly, I suppose, it’s Read More …
I’ve written before about the beautiful etchings of James McNeill Whistler, whose work as an etcher is even less well known than his paintings. On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler is a new exhibition opening this Saturday, August 21, 2010, Read More …
For reasons that are beyond me, the image most popularly associated with Whistler is not, as it is with most artists, one of his artistic pinnacles; but, at least in my opinion, one of his least successful and least interesting works, Arrangement in Grey and Read More …
I’ll do a general post about James Abbot McNeill Whistler at some point, but for this one I want to concentrate on his etchings. In the general sense, suffice it to say that if your only familiarity with Whistler is his rather staid profile portrait Read More …
Though not technically a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which consisted of only seven artists and writers) Valentine Cameron Prinsep was certainly within the inner levels of their circle. He was good friends with John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones, worked on a project for Read More …