Softcover
2013 · London
by MacDonald, Margaret F. and Patricia de Montfort
London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2013. Softcover. VG; one copy may have slight wear along spine crease. Color pictorial wraps, French flaps, inside cover maps,191 pp., many BW and color illus. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2013-2014 exhibitions showcasing the 1860s-1870s artwork of the Thames River, as rendered by American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). "Presents the definitive examples of Whistler's radical new aesthetic approach to the time-honoured subject of the city and river. In addition, the works reveal to us his world -- the exhibitions, the personalities, the buildings, the style, and the atmosphere which inform his art and root this American cosmopolitan securely in the ranks of artists inspired by London and the Thames." (flap) Both for lovers of London and of Whistler.
(Inventory #: 143703)