Article: Whistler, women and fashion.

Among the treasures of the Frick Collection in New York are four full-length portraits by Whistler, three of which provided the main raison d'etre for the recent exhibition 'Whistler, Women, & Fashion'. The fourth, Arrangement in black and gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, was the subject of its own exhibition in 1995. Since Henry Clay Frick's will prohibits the loan of works from his bequest, this is an exhibition that could only happen at the Frick, but that institution--wonderful as it is in so many ways--was not the ideal setting for such an undertaking. The paintings, with only one significant exception, were all squeezed into the Oval Room in the main ...

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