Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room ( 1876–1877) is one of Whistler's masterpiece art. He painted the paneled room in a rich and unified palette of blue greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf. It now is considered a high example of the Anglo-Japanese style. At one point, Whistler gained access to Leyland's home and painted two fighting peacocks meant to represent the artist and his patron; one holds a paint brush and the other holds a bag of money, which is said to represent the fight that had caused Whistler's termination. The contents of the Peacock Room was installed in his Detroit mansion. Now the Peacock Room was permanently installed in the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The gallery opened to the public in 1923.
References
- Merrill, Linda, and Sarah Ridley, The Princess and the Peacocks; or, The Story of the [Peacock] Room. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, in association with the Freer Gallery of Art, 1993.
- Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 1998
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