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A fascinating look at how Venetian glass influenced American artists and patrons during the late nineteenth century
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass presents the first comprehensive exploration of American engagement with Venice's art world in the late nineteenth century. During this time, Americans in Venice not only encountered a floating city of palaces, museums, and churches, but also countless shop windows filled with dazzling specimens of brightly colored glass. Though the Venetian island of Murano had been a leading center of glass production since the Middle Ages, productivity bloomed between 1860 and 1915. This revival coincided with Venice's popularity as a destination on the Grand Tour, and resulted in depictions of Italian glassmakers and glass objects by leading American artists, including John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Moran, Oscar Bluemner, William Merritt Chase, and Maxfield Parrish. In turn, their patrons visited glass furnaces and collected museum-quality, hand-blown chalices decorated with designs of flowers, dragons, and sea creatures. This lavishly illustrated book examines exquisitely crafted glass pieces alongside paintings, watercolors, and prints of the same era by American artists who found inspiration in Venice. Italian glass had a profound influence on American art, literature, design theory, and science education, as well as the period's thinking regarding gender, labor, and class relations. For artists such as Sargent and Whistler, and their patrons, glass objects were aesthetic emblems of history, beauty, and craftsmanship. From the furnaces of Murano to American parlors and museums, Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass brings to life the imaginative energy and unique creations that beckoned tourists and artists alike. Published in Association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibition ScheduleSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
October 8, 2021-May 8, 2022 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
June-September 2022 Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy
October 2022-January 2023
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Barr, Sheldon
- ISBN: 9780691222677
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 12.30 x 1.40
- Number Of Pages: 336
- Publication Year: 2021