Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

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An 1886 etching in dark brown ink on ivory paper of the Village Sweet Shop by James McNeill Whistler

An oil on wood street scene in Chelsea by Whistler.

Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change is a project of the Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies and is made possible with support from the Lunder Foundation.

Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change is curated by David Park Curry, a 2020–21 Senior Fellow at the Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art. Curry holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University. His work as a curator has included key roles at the Freer Gallery of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Curry is the author of James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (1984); his 2004 monograph, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, followed the 2003 Freer exhibition Mr. Whistler’s Galleries, which featured Curry’s reconstruction of the Arrangement in White and Yellow (1883), the artist’s controversial installation of etchings as a total work of art.

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Freer Gallery of Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
November 18, 2023–May 4, 2024

Selected Works

James McNeill Whistler

A transfer lithograph of Maunder's Fish Shop by Whistler, 1890.

James McNeill Whistler

Etching of a busy riverside with boats, buildings, and a man sitting on a boat.

James McNeill Whistler

An oil on canvas of a winter landscape by Whistler, 1864.

James McNeill Whistler

An oil painting of a street scene with a barber shop and locals in the doorway meeting the artist's gaze, 1895.

James McNeill Whistler

Etching and drypoint in black ink on cream Japanese paper depicting boats on a dried out river bed in Chelsea, 1879.

James McNeill Whistler

Etching and drypoint in dark brown ink on off-white laid paper by Whistler depicting the Old Putney Bridge, 1879.

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