A princess in a portrait by the famous American painter James McNeill Whistler tells how he transforms the dreary room where she hangs in his wealthy patron's house in London into the spectular Peacock Room.
A princess in a portrait by the famous American painter James McNeill Whistler tells how he transforms the dreary room where she hangs in his wealthy patron's house in London into the spectular Peacock Room.
Discusses the influence of nineteenth-century American-born artist James McNeill Whistler--who left for Europe as a young man and never returned--on American art, and presents and compares fourteen of Whistler's paintings with works by thirty-eight American painters.
A princess in a portrait by the famous American painter, James McNeill Whistler, tells how he transforms the dreary room where she hangs in his wealthy patron's house in London into the spectacular Peacock Room.