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Title: Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games
Author: ROEDER KATHERINE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/06/2019
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $61.95
Publishing status: Active
In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler reinvented himself through the medium of watercolour. At the time, excellence in watercolour was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner. Whistler’s embrace of watercolour allowed the expatriate artist to present himself as an heir to the great Turner, while at the same time creating easily portable works that could supply an American market and, the artist hoped, help secure his art-historical legacy in his home country. Indeed, it was the American Gilded Age industrialist Charles Lang Freer who would amass the largest collection of Whistler’s watercolours, eventually bequeathing them to the Smithsonian in 1906.