In the early part of the 20th century, the English artist Walter Sickert explored the theatre of the ‘New Drama’. Learn more about his fascination with realism and the spectre of Ibsen here.
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‘A cluster of butterflies: James Guthrie Orchar and his collection of Whistler etchings and drypoints’
Dundee is home to one of the most significant small collections of the artists James Abbott McNeill Whistler and his brother-in-law, Sir Francis Seymour Haden. I was luck enough to gain access to the McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum to view these artists beautiful prints. Here’s a link to a piece I wrote on the collection for the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History (Volume 16, 2011-12)
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Sickert’s Mirror: Reflecting duality, identity and performance c.1890
Way back in the day, at the early start of my research into Walter Sickert, I published a little piece on Sickert and his relationship to the music hall.
It was published in the British Art Journal (X, 3, p. 138-144). Here’s a link:
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