Joanna Sheers discusses Whistler's Symphony in Grey and Green: The Ocean from the exhibition Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in The Frick Collection, June 2 through August 23, 2009. For more information, please visit our Web site: http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/whistler.
The famous Whistler collection of my Great Grandfather, Richard A. Canfield, was the second largest in the country and sold to M. Knoedler Co. in 1914. 34 of Richard's Whistlers - oils, water colors, pastels, pen and ink and pencil drawings - but not the portrait of Richard himself. Whistler and Richard were very close friends. Whistler's last work was of my Great Grandfather whom he called teasingly, "His Reverence". The Ocean portrait in this video belonged to Richard and hangs in the Frick.
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