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 James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 — 1903), Billingsgate, 1859, etching, 5 15/16 x 8 7/8 inches, Museum Purchase, 2003.5.1C 

Gallery installation at the Reading Public Museum

Edwin Edwards (English, 1823 – 1879), Parisian Boulevard seen through a Balcony Railing, 1860s, ink on paper, 10 ¾ x 15 ¼ inches, Museum Purchase, 1918.115.55, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival installed at the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

George Edward Hopkins (American, 1855 – 1924), Sotto Portico del Traghetto, 1880, ink on paper, 15 1/16 x 11 ½ inches, Gift, Dr. Levi W. Mengel, 1918.119.53.32, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival installed at the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818 – 1910), Battersea Reach, 1863, ink on paper, Museum Purchase 1928.53.1, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival installed at the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Pennell (American, 1857 – 1926), Caissons on Vesey Street, 1921, ink on paper, 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches, Gift, Edwin DeTurck Bechtel in memory of Dr. Levi W. Mengel, 1944.146.1, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival installed at the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Lester George Hornby (American, 1882 – 1956), London Bridge, 1908, ink on paper, 7 ¾ x 10 inches, Museum Purchase, 1949.73.2.1, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival installed at the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Pennell (American, 1857 – 1926), New York from Governor’s Island, 1915, ink on paper, 7 5/16 x 11 ¾ inches, Museum Purchase, 1954.2.1, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American [worked in England], 1834 – 1903), La Vieille aux Loques (The Old Rag Woman), 1858, ink on paper, Gift, Kathryn M. Klingeman, 2006.4.1, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American [worked in England], 1834 – 1903), Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris, 1858, ink on paper, Gift, Kathryn M. Klingeman, 2006.4.28, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival

Expatriate American artist, James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834  – 1903) played an essential role in the etching revival of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and will be the featured among some of his contemporary printmakers in this fascinating exhibition. Whistler & Company includes nearly a dozen works by Whistler, whose gritty images of the River Thames, views of Venice, and Parisian scenes revived, at least in part, the art of etching in the 19th century. Works from Whistler’s ‘Thames Set’ and ‘French Set’ will be featured in the exhibition. Other artists who participated in the etching revival include Francis Seymour Haden, James McBey, Edwin Edwards, David Young Cameron, Muirhead Bone, Mortimer Menpes, Charles Meryon, Maxime Lalanne, Joseph Pennell, and Frank Duveneck, among others.

The etching revival of the second half of the 19th century took hold in France, England and the United States. Artists set out to reestablish etching—the art of incising lines with an etching needle into a thin copper plate which was then inked and pressed into paper with the help of a printing press to create impressions—as an art form that could stand on its own. Inspired by Rembrandt, and the old masters, practitioners created remarkable original and expressive compositions that gained popularity with refined collectors and the broader public.

All of the works in in the exhibition are drawn from the Reading Public Museum’s permanent collection of works on paper, which numbers more than 10,000.

Exhibition Tour:

Museum of the Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
The Hermitage Museum & Gardens, Norfolk, VA

 

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