Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "James McNeill Whistler"


2 mentions found


The PaintingAs you may recall, the painting you just spent time with is “Nocturne in Blue and Silver,” by the American artist James McNeill Whistler. As you look further down the painting, things start to get confusing. As you look further down the painting, things start to get confusing. She believes Whistler may have started the painting one way and then simply changed his mind, flipped the panel upside down and started over. (She recommended this Whistler painting for our exercise.)
Persons: James McNeill Whistler, Lauren O'Neil, Whistler, Kate Smith, Smith, , Gloria Mark, you’re, Roberts, , Roberts’s, Mark Organizations: New York Times, Harvard Art, The New York Times, Harvard Art Museums, University of California, Harvard Locations: American, London, brushy, Irvine
An American Collector in Egypt
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Peter Saenger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The American industrialist Charles Lang Freer collected all kinds of art, from Asian ceramics to paintings by James McNeill Whistler. But he considered ancient Egyptian art the “greatest” in the world, acquiring more than a hundred small-scale Egyptian treasures as much as five millennia old. Freer’s rise to riches was a classic Gilded Age story. Born in Kingston, N.Y., in 1854, he made a fortune in railcar manufacturing, and by his mid-40s he could step back from business. I have tried lately to reason a little with myself; to think to what purpose to devote my few remaining years.”
Total: 2