James Abbott Mcneill Whistler (1834 - 1903) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: James Abbott Mcneill Whistler (1834 - 1903)
Nationality: American
Movement: Realism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
After studying at West Point, James Abbot McNeil Whistler served briefly in the Navy before moving to Paris. He met and joined the Realists, primarily Courbet and Fatin-Latour. He then moved to London where he combined his French influences with his love of Japanese art to create a unique style. His work received mixed reviews from critics but had a profound impact on later British artists.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Speed Art Museum: Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler from the Collection of Steven Block
First introduced to lithography in 1878, Whistler’s interest in the medium never waned and he experimented with lithography intermittently until his death in 1903. Works included in this exhibition depict intimate scenes from daily life, delicate ...
Frick Collection: Whistler, Women, and Fashion
The exhibition is organized by Susan Grace Galassi, Curator at The Frick Collection, and Margaret F. MacDonald, a leading Whistler scholar and Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Whistler Studies at the University of Glasgow; Aileen Ribe...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Whistler: Impressions of an American Abroad
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Phillips Collection: A Collector's Cabinet: Whistler's Lithographs and 20th Century American Prints from the Collection of Steven Block
The understated eloquence of Whistler's lithographs connects the personal exploration of Whistler with the experimentation of early American modernists. Admired by artists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Whistler's contribution ...
Detroit Institute of Art: American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers
The 63 pieces in the show include 13 paintings by Whistler as well as works by other prominent American artists such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Henry Ossawa Tanner. Whistler’s paintings will be juxtapos...
Taft Museum: Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler
This exhibition is sponsored by the Oliver Family Foundation. While Whistler’s paintings were often subjected to harsh criticism, his printed work garnered him a reputation as ...
Detroit Institute of Art: The Etching Revival in Europe: Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century French and British Prints
Examples of their work and that of many artists on both sides of the English Channel such as Charles Meryon, Edouard Manet, Jean François Millet, and Frank Brangwyn are part of this exhibition of more than 120 prints from the DIA collection. ...
Guild Hall Museum: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Celebrating the opening of the exhibition on Friday, June 16 will be a Gala Preview and Cocktail Party, 6 p.m., $275. Also on Saturday, June 17 there will be an Opening Reception between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. $5 donation (members Free) A Gallery T...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Frame in America: 1860-1960
A unique aspect of The Frame in America is that all ninety-eight frames included in the exhibition are displayed without pictures in order to assist visitors in focusing on each frame’s individual characteristics. Many of the frames are also neste...
Muskegon Museum of Art: Second Nature: Drawings by Karen Klein
She does start with a careful and close study of nature, but transforms what she observes. Referring to the great artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Klein notes that as an artist she must arrange and harmonize into a glorious unity what she pick...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Boston, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Robert Reid and Frederick Carl Frieseke developed a genteel version of Impressionism related to the culture of that city. Artists such as Daniel Garber and Maurice Prendergast carried Impress...
Detroit Institute of Art: Beyond Big: Oversized Prints, Drawings and Photographs
In the last half of the 20th century, advances in technology have permitted artists to create prints and photographs of unprecedented scale. With equipment and paper now being produced in sizes that rival dimensions that only paintings and some dr...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: John Twachtman: An American Impressionist
Organized chronologically and thematically by the High Museum of Art, the exhibition will be divided into four sections: the early Venice and New Yo...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
This exhibition brings together twenty works of art by Rossetti and focuses on his masterpiece of the period, The Blue Bower (1865). These works are displayed in context with paintings and drawings by other nine...
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Smog: Works Inspired by London's Great Smog
For a whole week in 1952, beginning on 4 December, London suffered its worst ever smog when levels of sulphur and particulates reached lethal concentrations, killing an estimated 12,000 people. Half a Century later, the event remains a reference p...
University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: Opulence and Devotion : Brazilian Baroque Art
On display will be a rich array of painted and gilded sculpture, silverwork and small altarpieces -- chosen from both private and public collections. There are charming, intimate, private altarpieces and oratórios -- car...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
San Diego Museum of Art: Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist
Organized by the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, and guest curated by Nicholas Kilmer, Frieseke’s grandson, this traveling retrospective is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Frieseke’s work ever assembled, consisting of ...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Carlyle: A Hero of His Time
Born in Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason, Carlyle was educated at Edinburgh University and became one of the most prolific and influential writers of the nineteenth century. A man of passionate convictions, he was regarded by his contemporari...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Queensland Art Gallery Director, Mr Doug Hall said The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection is a celebration of the Gallery's proud history of touring the State's col...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Georgeanne Deen: 1992-2002
The result is a peep show into a fierce and fragile comedy of the human psyche that many of us would be loathe to lay open. Past series from which she will be showing key works are The Mother Load, The Vogue Book of the Dead, Un Fuc Me (and l...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Tate Britain: Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Exposed will be the first exhibition to survey the full range of the Victorian nude, both male and female. It will concentrate on the nude in painting, drawing and sculpture, but will also explore artistic representations of the naked body in othe...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Last Week! Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns

The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints and sculpture from the Galle...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints and sculpture from the Gallerys...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints and sculpture from the Gallerys...
Telfair Museum of Art: Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist
Accompanying the exhibition will be a handsome 220-page full-color hardback catalogue published by the Telfair and distributed jointly with Princeton University Press. In addition, a 30-minute documentary ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Treasure Hunt: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper
According to Carnegie Museum of Art's Associate Curator of Fine Arts Linda Batis, Treasure Hunt not only showcases important acquisitions, but also reveals the extent of the museum's collection of works on paper. We collect to overcome weaknes...

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