Whistler in Watercolor

Title: Whistler in Watercolor
Author List: Lee Glazer, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, Ari Post, Kerry Roeder
Publisher: Freer|Sackler
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Type: online resource
Format: digital
Collection Area(s): American Art
Whistler in Watercolor online publication cover. Cover image: a watercolor painting of sailboats on the ocean in pastel shades of blue, green, and cream. The title
Description:

The Freer Gallery of Art is home to the world’s largest collection of James McNeill Whistler’s watercolors. Originally acquired by museum founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), the collection comprises more than fifty seascapes, figures, interiors, and nocturnes.

This online catalogue introduces visitors to the artist’s vast creative output in watercolor and provides access to rarely seen works that have never left the confines of the Freer Gallery. It incorporates collaborative research by our museum’s curatorial, conservation, and scientific staff to illuminate the artist’s techniques and materials.