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James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA ( / ˈwɪslər /; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
James Abbott Whistler was born in in 1834 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the third son of West Point graduate and civil engineer Major George Washington Whistler, and his second wife Anna Matilda McNeill.
James McNeill Whistler (born July 11, 1834, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died July 17, 1903, London, England) was an American-born artist noted for his paintings of nocturnal London, for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits, and for his brilliant etchings and lithographs.
James McNeill Whistler participated in the artistic ferment of Paris and London in the late nineteenth century, crafted a distinctive style from diverse sources, and arrived at a version of Post-Impressionism in the mid-1860s, a time when most of his contemporaries in the avant-garde were still exploring Realism and Impressionism.
Dec 8, 2023 · In a London courthouse in 1878, Attorney General John Holker asked the artist James McNeill Whistler how much time it took to complete one of his paintings. The work in question was Nocturne in...
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in the industrial town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Inducted into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he accumulated so many demerits that he became a sore trial to the then-commandant Major Robert E. Lee.
Famously charming and tempestuous, artistically innovative and independent, he's been described as the first contemporary artist – discover the wonderful world of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903).
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Essays. James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) as Etcher. Constance C. McPhee. Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. April 2015. Among history’s most inventive and influential printmakers, Whistler made nearly 500 etchings over five decades.
Nov 9, 2012 · James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
