Like Breath on Glass Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Wanda M. Corn, Marc Simpson — 2008

Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.