Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special issue, published as a catalogue for the exhibition "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," features the Art Institute's oustanding collection of Whistler's Lithographs. Ten short essays examine Whistler's working methods and consider the ways in which lithography helped the artist to resolve aesthetic challenges in a variety of media.

Including over 200 high-quality reproductions, this issue serves both as a guide to the exhibiton and as an essential reference source for works that are seldom exhibited and have been rarely studied.