Please Join Us for a Tour of
Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change
with Curator Diana Greenwold
at the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of Asian Art
Thursday, January 4, 2:15 pm
Members of the Washington Print Club and their guests are invited to register for the January 4, 2024 curator tour of exhibition, Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change. Registration is capped at 20 people, so please RSVP early to secure a spot.
Members will join curator Diana Greenwold, Lunder Curator of American Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, to experience the museum’s unparalleled collection of works by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903). This groundbreaking exhibition explores European cities in an era of rapid change. The show brings together oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, and prints—some on view for the first time in the museum’s history—documenting the artist’s career-long fascination with urban landscapes undergoing drastic transformations at the end of the nineteenth century.
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Whistler rose to prominence in Paris and London, where he created many of his shopfront and streetscape images. The picturesque old neighborhoods that the artist frequented were in many cases being razed and redeveloped as parks, thoroughfares, and new homes for wealthy city dwellers. This construction demolished historic structures and squeezed poor and working-class residents into ever more marginalized spaces. Many of the stores and workshops Whistler depicted were torn down shortly after he illustrated them. By the end of his life, Whistler—a determined modernist—had a somewhat undeserved reputation as a historic preservationist. More information on the exhibition is available here. Registration is limited to 20 members and their guests. Members may register up to two people.
Please note that the tour will begin at 2:30. We are asking that participants arrive by 2:15 in order to ensure that the tour begins on time. Also, the tour occurs on a day when the shutters of the famed Peacock Room will be open, allowing natural light to illuminate the room. WPC program participants are welcome to visit Whistler’s Peacock Room on their own before or after the Print Club program.
Member News
Curated by WPC member Helen Frederick, Eternal Paper brings together 20 artists who have collaborated to create hand-formed art in and on paper. Helen will lead gallery walks through the exhibition at noon on
January 18, February 15, March 21, April 18, and May 16. RSVPs are not necessary, but please fee free to do so by emailing Helen. The exhibition includes work by WPC members Soledad Salame, Helen Frederick, Randi Reiss McCormack, and Gretchen Schermerhorn. More information about the exhibition is available here.
Carol Barsha has announced that she will have work in the Salon Zürcher exhibition 11 Women of Spirit, Part 9 In New York, April 29 – May 5, 2024.
Jacqueline Crocetta, Elzbieta Sikorska, and June Linowitz have work in the McLean Project for the Arts exhibition, Moving Beyond Beauty: Reverence and Reclamation. The exhibition runs through until February 17.
The Fred Schneider Gallery in Arlington, VA will be hosting a solo show of the paintings and drawings by member Delna Dastur. The show runs through December 30. More information is available here.
linn meyers has won a 2023 “Anonymous Was a Woman” award. This prestigious award is given to ten women artists each year who are over the age of 40 and who are at a critical junction in their career.
Robert Hunter’s work received a Juror’s Choice award at the Fletcher Exhibition of Socially and Politically engaged Artwork held at the Reece Museum. Additionally, his work has been accepted into the 2024 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition at the Bradbury Art Museum and his print Night Flight to the Dream Matrix will be included in the Pixels Exhibition, a national exhibition of digital art held at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery, Works by Susan Stacks and Maggie Gourlay. Until December 20. of homage and of hope, works on paper by Brian Dupont and paintings by Nathan Mullins. January 31 – March 1.
Addison/Ripley, Not Your Mother’s Wrapping Paper featuring works on paper by a number of artists including WPC members Julia Bloom and Mira Hecht. Until January 13. More information here.
Gallery Neptune & Brown, Works by Joseph Keiffer until January 6.
Hemphill, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, until December 22. Willem de Looper Paintings 1972-1975, January 27-March 2.
Morton Fine Art, Ink on paper drawings by Hannelie Coetzee, until December 19. Works on paper by a variety of artists, January 4 – February 10.
Pazo Fine Art At Pazo’s DC location, work by Kate Sable, until January 13.
Pyramid Atlantic’s The annual 10×10 exhibition will runs until December 24. Information about workshops and classes is available here.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Winter Salon: Seeing Things in a New Light includes work by WPC members Deborah Schindler, Kate Lowman,Rosemary Cooley, Susan Wooddell Campbell, and Leslie Rose. Until January 14. More information here.
Also of Interest
National Gallery of Art, Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840-1940. Until February 4.
National Gallery of Art, Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, until March 31.
National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, until March 31.
National Gallery of Art, The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and its Legacy, February 11 – May 27.
National Museum of Asian Art, Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (see above).
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, until October, 2024.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella. A series of 25 prints engraved in 1675 and published in 1787. Until October 20.
New Member Welcome
Please join us in offering a warm welcome to new member Denys Resnick. Denys shares, “I moved to Chevy Chase, MD in 2018, after spending the previous 25 years in Cleveland, Ohio, where I enjoyed the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Orchestra, and attending some Cleveland Print Club events. Now as a “semi-retired” business consultant, I have the time to pursue “the things I always wanted to do, which includes being a member of the Washington Print Club.”