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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/lady-lever-art-gallery-whistler-
 and-pennell-etching-the-city/
SUMMARY:Lady Lever Art Gallery: Lady Lever Art Gallery: Whistler and Pennel
 l: Etching the City
DESCRIPTION:Whistler and Pennell: Etching the City\n\nWork by two of the mo
 st influential and innovative etchers\, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and 
 Joseph Pennell\, goes on display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery from 4 May
  to 7 October 2018.\n\nWhistler and Pennell: Etching the City features 38
  prints. Together these images capture the changing landscape of two majo
 r cities\, New York and London (and their surrounding areas)\, in the fina
 l years of the industrial revolution.\n\nThe exhibition also highlights an
  important period in etching’s history\, known as the Etching Revival.
  The exhibition considers how both artists championed a medium which had 
 been in a state of decline and their motivation to create a definitive tec
 hnique and style.\n\nOne room places Whistler’s work in particular into 
 context\, and examines the role of key people such as Sir Francis Seymour
  Haden - who was important in redefining etching as an original art medium
  in Britain - and French artist\, Charles Meryon\, as significant influenc
 es on Whistler.\n\nThe second section of the exhibition features the Tha
 mes Set\, a group of prints made mostly between 1859 and 1861 when the art
 ist first moved to London. These 16 charming etchings show the hive of act
 ivity of life on the river. Ships\, sailors\, cargo\, tides\, smoke and wa
 rehouses fill the images\, and give a sense of how rich the city was in su
 bject matter for an artist keen to experiment and push the boundaries of t
 he medium.\n\nThe final room focuses on Pennell\, Whistler’s life-long f
 riend and biographer. Described as the "pictorial laureate of the last ph
 ase of the industrial revolution"\, Pennell was a leading American printm
 aker. Made some 50 years after the Thames Set this series explores how P
 ennell’s work continued Whistler’s search for a fresh technique and st
 yle. Views of early 20th century skyscrapers and Brooklyn Bridge depict a
  New York visitors may well recognise. The accompanying gritty etchings of
  neighbouring steel and oil-works give some insight into the industries po
 wering the city’s growth\, and the dramatically changing skyline that co
 nfronted Pennell on his return to America in 1908.\n\nThe artists shared a
 n interest in the role of architecture\, engineering\, industry and produ
 ction but their approaches differed. Whistler’s imagery captured the ind
 ividual characteristics of the city and its workers\, as opposed to Pennel
 l’s\, which provides an impersonal and more distant perspective.\n\nThis
  exhibition also explores the lives of both American artists and their mot
 ivations for immigrating to Britain in the second half of the 19th centur
 y.\n\nCurator of the exhibition\, Alex Patterson said: “The prints in th
 is exhibition are small in dimension but bursting with the bustle\, life a
 nd energy of two major cities going through extraordinary growth and chang
 e. It is fascinating to compare the work of the two artists whose approach
  differed but who shared a passion and a belief for the medium of etching.
 \n\n“Whistler is generally much better known as a painter\, so we hope t
 his exhibition will give visitors an opportunity to see a new side to the 
 artist and appreciate his versatility in finding new ways to share his vie
 w of the changing world around him.”\n\nThe exhibition is drawn entirely
  from the Walker Art Gallery’s collection of more than 8\,000 works on p
 aper\, which spans from the early Medieval and Renaissance period to the 
 present day and features works of international significance.\n\nThe devel
 opment of the Whistler and Pennell: Etching the City exhibition was supp
 orted by a Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Research Grant from the Art Fund.\n\
 nWatermark\, an ongoing project to create an online gallery of the Walker
 ’s works on paper\, is funded by the Molly Tomlinson Bequests. www.live
 rpoolmuseums.org.uk/watermark\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by an excit
 ing public programme of free activities for all ages. \n\n\nhttp://www.li
 verpoolmuseums.org.uk/whistlerpennell\n\n#WhistlerPennell
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