Author: Merrill, Linda
Title: The Peacock Room: A cultural biography
Description: Washington. Smithsonian Institution. 1993. First Edition. Quarto. Hardcover. Fine. Near Fine. 406 pages, text in English. Many illustrations and photographs. 'Harmony in blue and gold: the peacock room' by James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903), now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institutions's Freer gallery of art, is widely regarded as the most important nineteenth century interior in an American Museum. This title: 'The peacock room" revises and constructs the history of Whistler's monumental composition, the only surviving example of his innovative and influential interior decorations and reassesses its importance.

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