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The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography (Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies Vol. 24)
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies Songs on Stone James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography - Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies Vol. 24 Author:Colin Westerbeck, Mark Pascale, Cherise Smith The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annuanlly, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special issue, published as the catalogue for the exhibition "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," features the Art Institute's outstanding collection of Whistler's lit... more »hographs. Ten short essays examine Whistler's working methods and consider the ways in which lithography helped the artist to resolve aesthetic challenges in a variety of media. An introductory essay, chronology, and glossary situate Whistler's lithographic activity in the larger framework of late nineteenth-century printmaking. Including over 200 high-quality reproductions, this issue serves both as a guide to the exhibition and as an essential reference source for the works that are seldom exhibited and have been rarely studied.« less