Best known as a painter and printmaker, James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) was also an influential

Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.

A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.

Catalog of the exhibition of the same name held at: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, from October 16, 2013, through January 12, 2014; Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from February 1, 2013, through April 13, 2014; and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., May 2-17, 2014.