An Artist Abroad: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler

by Jane Kinsman

This small book illustrates three sets of etchings by James McNeill Whistler. The influence of the French Realist tradition along with Rembrandt and the Dutch school are clearly apparent in the so-called French Set of 1858, a series of twelve figure studies and village scenes from early in his career in Paris. In London, Whistler produced an evocative series of sixteen etchings of the Thames and its surrounds: its people and haunts - the land, water,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0642542090
• ISBN13: 9780642542090
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher