Events
Visions of Venice
Description
In 1879 American artist James McNeill Whistler was commissioned by the Fine Art Society, a commercial gallery in London, to produce twelve etchings of Venice over a three-month period. Finding a seemingly endless source of subject matter, the artist stayed in the city for fourteen months, creating fifty-one etchings, one hundred pastels, and numerous paintings. This exhibition showcases thirty of Whistler’s etchings of Venice on loan from the private collection of Ambassador C. Boyden Gray.