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Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival
Expatriate American artist, James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) played an essential role in the etching revival of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and will be the featured among some of his contemporary printmakers in this fascinating exhibition. Whistler & Company includes nearly a dozen works by Whistler, whose gritty images of the River Thames, views of Venice, and Parisian scenes revived, at least in part, the art of etching in the 19th century. Works from Whistler’s ‘Thames Set’ and ‘French Set’ will be featured in the exhibition. Other artists who participated in the
David Young Cameron, Muirhead Bone, Mortimer Menpes, Charles Meryon, Maxime Lalanne, Joseph Pennell, and Frank Duveneck, among others.
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etching revival include Francis Seymour Haden, James McBey, Edwin Edwards,