{"id":4465,"date":"2022-02-02T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/?p=25951"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:13:17","slug":"whistlers-woman-in-white-joanna-hiffernan-exhibition-at-the-royal-academy-of-arts","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/homesantiques\/rss_feed\/whistlers-woman-in-white-joanna-hiffernan-exhibition-at-the-royal-academy-of-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistler\u2019s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Molly Malsom\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 02 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"&quot;p1&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\">Many of the works by American artist James McNeill Whistler feature the red-haired figure of celebrated Irish beauty Joanna Hiffernan, and in this rich exhibition, the <a href=\"\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Royal Academy<\/a> explores her life and role as a friend, model, lover and collaborator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;p1&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\">Her close professional and personal relationship with the artist lasted for two decades, yet little about her influence in his life has been explored \u2013 until now.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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alt=\"&quot;Royal\" academy=\"\" exhibition=\"\" title=\"&quot;James\" abbott=\"\" mcneill=\"\" whistler_symphony=\"\" in=\"\" white_no1thewhite=\"\" girl1862=\"\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> James McNeill Whistler\u2019s Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862, featuring his muse<br\/>Joanna Hiffernan<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"&quot;p2&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\">This exhibition brings together 70 works, including portraits of Hiffernan, captured in avant-garde paintings, prints and drawings that challenged cultural norms and established Whistler as one of the most influential artists of the late 19th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;p2&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\">A key highlight will be Whistler\u2019s three <i>Symphony in White<\/i> paintings, which inspired a series of paintings portraying the \u2018woman in white\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <h4 style=\"&quot;box-sizing:\" inherit=\"\" scroll-margin-top:=\"\" margin:=\"\" padding:=\"\" border:=\"\" font-variant-numeric:=\"\" font-variant-east-asian:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" font-stretch:=\"\" font-size:=\"\" line-height:=\"\" font-family:=\"\" adobe-caslon-pro=\"\" georgia=\"\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman=\"\" serif=\"\" vertical-align:=\"\" initial=\"\" color:=\"\" background-color:=\"\">You might also enjoy:<\/h4>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/antiques\/antiques-news\/10-of-the-most-famous-art-and-antiques-scandals\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">10 of the most famous art and antiques scandals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/antiques\/art-nouveau-style-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-international-design-movement\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Art noveau: the history, designers and antiques<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/antiques\/antiques-news\/culture\/best-museum-gallery-memberships\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Best museum and gallery memberships<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/antiques\/experts-shop-antiques\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Where to shop for antiques according to experts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p class=\"&quot;p2&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\">Despite many rejections for his work <i>Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl<\/i> (1862) \u2013 including from the 1862 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition that he had specifically painted it for \u2013 Whistler won considerable success in Paris when it was shown in 1863 at the Salon des Refus\u00e9s, a protest exhibition sanctioned by Emperor Napoleon III. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;p2&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\">The exhibition also explores works by Courbet, who painted Hiffernan when he and Whistler worked together in Normandy, and concludes with paintings by Millais, Klimt and other artists who were inspired by Whistler\u2019s <i>Symphony in White<\/i>. <\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Molly Malsom Published: Wednesday, 02 February 2022 at 12:00 am Many of the works by American artist James McNeill Whistler feature the red-haired figure of celebrated Irish beauty Joanna Hiffernan, and in this rich exhibition, the Royal Academy explores her life and role as a 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