Acquisitions from the Fenimore Art Museum: 19th and 20th century American paintings

16/9/24 - Acquisitions - Cooperstown (State of New York), Fenimore Art Museum - "I have learned to know a Venice in Venice that others never seem to have perceived". Whistler not only admired the city’s monumental architecture from seductive perspectives, he also wandered its dark canals, explored its alleyways and backyards, admired its dilapidated palaces and often wandered around at night. He went there in 1879 at the request of the London gallery Fine Art Society, which had commissioned a series of etchings on the theme of Venice. "Never before had anyone tried to render so much with so little apparent work, but it was a complete success, and we had before our eyes the image that Venice evokes so well, that of a city ready to sink beneath the sea" Théodore Duret admired. His stay,…