Painting softly.(Current and coming)(Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Paint ing Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts )(Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York)(Houdon at the Louvre: Master-works of the Enlightenment, High Museum of Art, Atlanta )(Calendar) The Magazine Antiques | June 1, 2008| | COPYRIGHT 2008 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

James McNeill Whistler once said: "Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the surface of a pane of glass." His metaphor is the basis of a provocative exhibition that opens this month at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Organized by Marc Simpson, it includes forty exquisite works by Whistler, George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, Edward Steichen, and others whose paintings seem less like hand-made things than thoughts or visions breathed upon the canvas. As Inness's son once wrote of his father's late works: "These are not ...

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