A cover of the exhibition catalogue for Sargent, Whistler & Venetian Glass

Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano

Crawford Alexander Mann, Sheldon Barr, Melody Barnett Deusner, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Stephanie Mayer Heydt, and Brittany Emens Strupp

Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano presents a broad 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. 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, including Frank Duveneck, Ellen Day Hale, Thomas Moran, Maria Oakey Dewing, Robert Frederick Blum, Charles Caryl Coleman, Louise Cox, Maurice Prendergast, and Maxfield Parrish, in addition to John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.

 

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Product Details

Publisher
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Year Published
2021
Pages
336
ISBN
  • Hardcover: 9780691222677
Dimensions
12” x 9” vertical

Exhibitions

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Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano 
October 8, 2021May 8, 2022
This exhibition brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the nineteenth century on the famed island of Murano and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for artists such as John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.