This gorgeously illustrated book tells the history of the Peacock Room, decorated by James McNeill Whistler for wealthy London shipowner Frederick Leyland and currently on display at the Freer Gallery of Art. The history offers fascinating insights into nineteenth-century British culture-taste, patronage, attitudes toward Asian art, origins of art nouveau, and relation to American culture.
Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. .

The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography

Arts & Photography

Merrill, Linda

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Freer: A Legacy of Art

Great book featuring the art collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. 184 color and black and white illustrations of works of art - paintings, sculpture, portraits, decorative arts, Japanese art, Asian art, arts of Korea and China and other works. Includes chronology of the collection and bibliography. Softcover. 272 pages. Measures 9 by 10 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated.

FREER: A Legacy of Art

Lawton, Thomas

Harry N. Abrams

Book by Thomas Lawton, Linda Merrill

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

A lavishly illustrated book explores the life and work of a 19th-century American landscape painter.

An Ideal Country: Paintings by Dwight William Tryon in the Freer Gallery of Art

Univ Pr of New England

A lavishly illustrated book explores the life and work of a 19th-century American landscape painter.

Small Animal Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses

Medical Books

Veterinary Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art

A comprehensive survey of American art from three centuries, this volume presents 79 works in full colour, essays on each artist and work, and an illustrated checklist of 85 additional examples.

Erickson, Kristen

Smith College Museum of Art

Muehlig, Linda D.

Jones, Betsy B.

Strong, Daniel J.

Hudson Hills Pr

A Pot of Paint reconstructs the lost transcript and revisits the highly contested issues surrounding one of the most celebrated trials in the history of art. A libel suit brought in the London courts by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler against John Ruskin, England's most powerful art critic, the trial was essentially a debate of aesthetic theory conducted at a critical hour in the evolution of modern art. After viewing an 1877 exhibition that included some of Whistler's most abstract works, Ruskin declared in print that the artist had flung "a pot of paint in the public's face." He called Whistler a "coxcomb" and said that it was the height of "cockney impudence" to ask two hundred guineas for a painting such as Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. The dispute was fully covered in the popular press. Using those newspaper accounts, as well as letters, legal papers, Ruskin's instructions to his counsel, and Whistler's later rendition of events in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Linda Merrill reveals the deeply held, contrary aesthetic ideals of the two parties, and shows that, in many ways, the real litigants in Whistler v. Ruskin were traditional, representational art and art that tended toward abstraction. During eighteen months of pretrial delays and two days of testimony from Whistler and several well-known figures in the art world, London debated the value and the meaning of art. A Pot of Paint retrieves these debates for a society that continues to argue the merits of innovation in art and the place of art in the modern world.

POT OF PAINT

Smithsonian

A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin

A princess in a portrait by the famous American painter, James McNeill Whistler, tells how he transforms the dreary room where she hangs in his wealthy patron's house in London into the spectacular Peacock Room.

The Princess and the Peacocks Or, the Story of the Room

Ridley, Sarah

Children's Books

Hyperion

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