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Title Like breath on glass : Whistler, Inness, and the art of painting softly / [edited by] Marc Simpson ; with essays by Wanda M. Corn ... [and others].

Publication Info. Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  ND210 .L55 2008    Available  ---
Description xi, 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Note Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 22-Oct. 19, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.
Contents Painting softly : an introduction / Marc Simpson -- Whistler, modernism, and the creative afflatus / Marc Simpson -- George Inness, softness, and the vapor barrier / Leo G. Mazow -- True illusions in soft paintings / Cody Hartley -- Materials for immateriality / Joyce Hill Stoner -- Plates -- The ''inaction painters" and their moment / Michael J. Lewis -- Reflections on "The color of mood" / Wanda M. Corn -- Appendix : The color of mood : American tonalism, 1880-1910.
Subject Painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Painting, American.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 -- Exhibitions.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.
Inness, George, 1825-1894 -- Exhibitions.
Inness, George, 1825-1894.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Simpson, Marc.
Corn, Wanda M.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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