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| James Abbott McNeill Whistler
American 1834 -1903
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| Born: |
Lowell Massachusetts
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| Died: |
London Great Britain
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| Active: |
Russian Federation 1843-1849
West Point New York 1851-1854
Paris France 1855-1859
London Great Britain 1859-on
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| Addresses: |
London since 1859
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| Studied: |
West Point 1851-1854
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia 1845
Pomfret, CT 1849-1851
Paris 1855
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| Instructors: |
Marc Gleyre 1855
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| Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design 1868, 1874
Paris Salon 1859-1900
Munich International Exposition 1892
Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1893-1894, 1896-1903
London Fine Arts Society 1883
Copley Society, Boston 1904
Amory Show, 1913
Salon des Refusees
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| Examples of Work: |
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
British Museum, London
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Detroit Institute of Arts
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Louvre
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Etcher
Lithographer
Instructor
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| Style/School: |
Impressionism
Luminism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Portraits
Figural
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
Officer, Legion of Honor
Royal Academy of St. Luke, Rome
Royal Academy of Bavaria
Society of British Artists 1884(president, 1886; resigned in 1888)
International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, London (president/founder) 1898
Royal Academy of Dresden
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
American-born painter and graphic artist, active mainly in England. He spent several of his childhood years in Russia (where his father had gone to work as a civil engineer) and was an inveterate traveler. His training as ...
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