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Like breath on glass : Whistler, Inness, and the art of painting softly

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