CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the work
of renowned American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
in the exhibition Whistlers Travels, in the Rotunda Galleries
from January 22, 2010 through May 16, 2010. The exhibition
features 21 etchings and three lithographs from the Gibbes
permanent collection and a local private collection. The
etchings and lithographs in Whistlers Travels were executed
during Whistlers excursions to the English countryside, France,
Holland, and Venice, Italy. In the summer of 1858, just three
years after James McNeill Whistler arrived in Paris to pursue a
profession in the arts, he embarked upon a walking tour of
France and Germany. Armed with sketch materials and copper
plates, Whistler created detailed drawings of the architecture
and inhabitants of the small towns he encountered. Many of the
works Whistler produced during this journey were published later
that year in his first set of etchings titled Twelve Etchings
from Nature, often referred to as the F