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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Wapping
Wapping on Thames, James McNeill Whistler In the national Gallery of Art, DC. The name refers to a rough and tumble dock area of the Thames River in London, where Whistler lived and worked for a time, though I think the location is actually a nearby inn rather than the artist’s studio. In a marked…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching of Wapping Warf
Wapping Warf, James McNeil Whistler Original is roughly 6×9 inches (15x23cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use download or enlarge icons below image. Another of Whistler’s stellar etchings of riverfront architecture and activity — a beautiful use of line and texture.
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching
The Traghetto No. 2, James McNeill Whistler Etching and drypoint; eighth state of nine, roughly 9×12 inches (23x30cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Rembrandt, Whistler never fails to amaze me with how casual he makes his drawing process look in his etchings, and yet how powerful and subtle is the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Purple And Rose
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 this beautiful painting every time I visit the museum. I…
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Whistler’s etchings (round 2)
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 the fine line available with an etching needle and carefully…
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On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler
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, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, which has…