Lecture: With Whistler in Venice

A lecture by Heather R. Nolin, Ph.D. (Assistant Director of Exhibitions, Programming, and Education at Yale University Art Gallery)

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) lived and worked in Venice from September 1879 to November 1880. The artist had declared bankruptcy just prior to his arrival there and his possessions were liquidated in London in his absence. Yet despite his personal troubles, Whistler managed during these fourteen months to produce some of his most innovative and genuinely sublime works. This lecture shall survey the artist’s life and examine many of the over fifty exquisitely etched plates, almost one hundred pastels, and several oil paintings that he created in Venice to discover how and why this period proved to be a turning point for the artist, in both financial and artistic terms.

In ENGLISH. In collaboration with Save Venice.

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From NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò.