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Whistler's Prints
Title: The Winged Hat, 1890
Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American 1834-1903)
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 7 x 6.75"
Second State
Image Courtesy: Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Art Collection, UC Davis
The Jeffrey Ruesch Collection of Lithographs
Richard L. Nelson Gallery
& Fine Art Collection, UC Davis
January 11, 2007 - March 18, 2007
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was a noted painter as well as being a prominent printer and lithographer. Why make the distinction? Lithography is a method of print making
where the design is printed from an image etched directly onto a material,
usually stone or wood. Rubens was also an excellent printmaker being one of the first to embrace this method of spreading
his artistic talents before the explosion of media. Lithography offered a sense of freedom to artists, they merely needed to draw on the stone and let the printer take over.
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Title: The Priest's House - Rouen, 1894 & 1895
Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American 1834-1903)
Medium: Lithograph
Second State
Image Courtesy: Richard L. Nelson Gallery
& Fine Art Collection, UC Davis
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Whistler was a fan of Japanese print-making and that certainly influenced his etchings and lithography.
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The artist sued the noted critic John Ruskin for libel after the latter
referred to the former's Nocture in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Whistler won a farthing but nothing for his legal costs, which nearly sent him into bankruptcy.
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It was his etchings and lithography that helped him recover from near financial ruin.
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Title: Needlework, 1896
Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American 1834-1903)
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 7.58 x 5.75"
Image Courtesy: Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Art Collection, UC Davis
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The Ruesch Collection is an excellent opportunity to view the medium of lithography in
its infancy by one of its masters, James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Whistler's Prints
The Jeffrey Ruesch Collection of Lithographs
Richard L. Nelson Gallery
& Fine Art Collection,
UC Davis:
January 11, 2007 - March 18, 2007
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