$49.00
Tamanohada, a Japanese company based in Tokyo, began making soap in 1892. Tamanohada’s “Welcome Soap" is made using a wooden mold called kashigata traditionally used for creating sweets. This soap portrays the tai fish, a snapper native to the western Pacific Ocean. In Japanese culture, this fish signifies good fortune and great prosperity, making this soap a welcome bath accessory or gift for any household.
The Welcome Soap is available in three scents: muscovado sugar, pomegranate, and lily blossom. Made with certified sustainable palm oil, these soaps are not only items of necessity created using sound environmental practices, but are also physical and visual joys to hold and behold. Palm oil is low in acidity and gentle on skin.
These soaps reminded us of this carved wood fish from Gardner's collection. Spot it in the Blue Room during your next visit!
$14.95
This decorative Eye Enamel Tray will bring instant personality into your home. Perfect home accessory for holding jewelry, stationery and other small trinkets.
Measures 4.7"H x 9.8"W x 0.6"D
$50.00
A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together
In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler’s works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism, and spiritualism.
This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan’s partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s—a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Packed with new insights into the creation, marketing, and cultural context of Whistler’s iconic works, this study also traces their resonance for his fellow artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and Gustav Klimt.
By Margaret F. MacDonald with contributions by Charles Brock, Patricia de Montfort, Joanna Dunn, Grischka Petri, Aileen Ribeiro, and Joyce Townsend
232 pages
Published by Yale University Press, 2020
Hardcover
9 x 1 x 10.75 inches
$45.00
A close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history
Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) has gained an international reputation for her dazzling portraits of Black women, as well as her large-scale installations that physically enfold viewers into lushly decorated, 1970s-inspired domestic interiors. This volume offers a window into Thomas’s unique, multifaceted approach and introduces a new living room–style installation by the artist, in which she creates, for the first time, a homelike environment reminiscent of the pre-abolition era. In addition to period-specific textile patterns and other decorative elements, her installation incorporates a selection of small-scale, early American portraits of Black women, men, and children—from miniatures and daguerreotypes to silhouettes on paper and engravings in books—as well as a group of works by Thomas and other contemporary artists in a wide range of media. The book’s essays examine both how Thomas’s engagement with early American history opens up previously unexplored and fertile ground for her artistic practice and how this project constructs evocative spaces (both physically and textually) in which the lives of early nineteenth-century Black Americans can be recognized on their own terms. With an artist’s statement and extensive photography that captures details of the installation, this presentation documents an exciting direction for one of today’s most acclaimed artists.
By Keely Orgeman with contributions by Deborah Willis
112 pages
Published by Yale University Art Gallery, 2023
Hardcover
8.8 x 1 x 9.5 inches
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