Like breath on glass
Subtitle: Whistler, Inness, and the art of painting softly
By: Marc Simpson ; with essays by Wanda M. Corn ... [et al.].
Contributors: Corn, Wanda M.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780931102769; 9780300134063
Subjects: Whistler, James McNeill, -- 1834-1903 -- Exhibitions; Inness, George, -- 1825-1894 -- Exhibitions; Painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 22-Oct. 19, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.