Exception or Extension? Reorienting the Peacock Room Among James McNeill Whistler's Interior Designs

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Masters Research Paper

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

School of Art and Art History, College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

First Advisor

M. E. Warlick

Keywords

James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903, Criticism and interpretation, Peacock Room, Interior decoration, Prints, American, 19th century, Exhibitions

Abstract

"Although famous for his paintings and etchings today, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was also an important interior designer in the nineteenth-century British Aesthetic movement. Whistler‘s most famous and only extant interior design is Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). It is also his most puzzling interior. Long considered an exception to the rule of Whistler‘s other interiors, the Peacock Room has often been overlooked in the few studies of the artist‘s interior designs"

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

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