Like breath on glass : Whistler, Inness, and the art of painting softly
Marc Simpson (Editor), Wanda M. Corn (Contributor), Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon
Print Book, English, ©2008
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; Distributed by Yale University Press, Williamstown, Mass., New Haven, ©2008