Hunterian Art Gallery
University art gallery holding a vast Whistler collection of paintings, prints and studio contents.
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This guide to the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow stops at one object: a towering painted fireplace that James McNeill Whistler turned into Harmony in Yellow and Gold. It follows the piece to the Paris world's fair of eighteen seventy-eight, and the painter back to London, where a famous critic's insult had landed him in a libel suit against John Ruskin. Best heard standing close enough to find the small butterfly signature.
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