Katherine Roeder

A focused investigation of Whistler’s watercolours that introduces readers to a rarely seen aspect of the artist’s creative output In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolour. At the time, excellence in watercolour was most often associated with British artists, most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Whistler’s embrace of...