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With kindest regards: the correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903

Door Linda Merrill

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#438441-VE57
Titel
With kindest regards: the correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903
Auteur
Merrill, Linda (editor)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Jaar van uitgave
1995
ISBN10
1560985321
ISBN13
9781560985327
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered grey cloth, dust jacket, illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
With Kindest Regards records the extraordinary friendship between the American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and his most significant patron, Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). By the time the industrialist from Detroit met the artist in 1890, Whistler was as notorious for his irascibility as he was famous for his artistic productions. Freer, however, would always maintain that he had never met a truer, nobler man.
Their correspondence reveals a warmth and generosity in Whistler that has gone largely unobserved.

The eighty-nine letters, telegrams, cablegrams, and calling cards chronicle the growth of Freer's Whistler collection, the largest and most important in the world. Linda Merrill sets the correspondence in context and traces the contacts between the two men d... (Lees verder)uring their long acquaintance. She observes how the previously unpublished letters cast new light on Freer's aesthetic education and expand the history of Whistler's later years.

Even Freer's outstanding collection of Asian art began with the keen interest in Japanese art he shared with Whistler. Illustrated with works from the Freer collection and vintage photographs from the Freer Gallery Archives, With Kindest Regards makes important original documents accessible for the first time, augments the legends of Whistler's personality, and reveals the foundation of Charles Freer's legacy to the United States.
Pagina's
221
Conditie
Goed — Name and date on first free endpaper.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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