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Revision as of 20:50, October 3, 2007
James Abbott McNeill Whistler ( Lowell, Massachusetts 1834 - London 1903) American painter and Printmaker.
In 1891, Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1: The Artist’s Mother was acquired by the French State and that same year Glasgow Corporation paid a thousand guineas for the Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. Having exhibited at several important international exhibitions, Whistler was awarded honors by Munich, Amsterdam and Paris.[1]
His credo "art for art's sake".
He was a precursor of abstract art.
Petit Gallery
The Thames in Ice
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
La Belle de Jour
Crepuscule in Opal Trouville
See also
External links
- Biography Olga's Gallery.
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler Carnegie Museum of Art.