Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection

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Exhibition: Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection
Dates: April 30, 2019 to September 1, 2019
Museum: The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
Listing type: Past Exhibitions
Description: The Frick Collection was pleased to announce a promised gift of forty-two works on paper by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), from the collection of Gertrude Kosovsky. This selection of fifteen prints and one pastel from the gift, presented different aspects of the American expatriate’s prolific activity as a printmaker over the course of his career.
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