Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form

Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form explores the early 20th century taste for newly excavated Hellenistic terracotta figurines. Known as Tanagras, these figurines inspired a series of James McNeill Whistler’s works on paper. Co-curated by Ruth Allen and Linda Merill, the show examines changing attitudes towards femininity by bringing Whistler’s work together with several Tanagras on loan from the Louvre.