Description:
For renowned artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), watercolor was the medium through which he reinvented himself in the 1880s. No one was more smitten with Whistler and his works than Charles Lang Freer, who amassed the world’s largest collection of watercolors by the artist and included them in his bequest to the Smithsonian in 1906. Freer’s collection comprises more than fifty of Whistler’s watercolors, yet these seascapes, interiors, nocturnes, and street scenes have never left the confines of the Freer Gallery of Art. This landmark book takes a fresh look at the exhibition and reception of Whistler’s watercolors in Britain and the United States and provides a new scientific analysis of his materials and techniques.
