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	West Point in the Making of America
		McNeill and Whistler began their lifelong friendship as cadets.
		McNeill and Whistler went to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
		Whistler went to Russia in 1842 to supervise construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg railroad, Russia’s first.
	americanhistory.si.edu /westpoint/history_2b1.html (118 words)

	Whistler - MalibuMountainWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in the United States.
		His father, George Washington Whistler, was invited to Russia in 1842 to build a railroad and James learned French in school while there.
		Whistler's belief that art should concentrate on the arrangement of colors led many critics to see his work as a precursor of abstract art.
	www.malibumountaingallery.com /wiki/index.php/Whistler (587 words)

	James Whistler biography
		His father, Major George Washington Whistler, of the United States army, was a distinguished engineer, and his mother, a Miss McNeill of Wilmington, N. C., was of a well-known Southern family.
		Whistler was also highly successful in dry-point etching and lithographic drawing, in which media he executed a number of plates.
		The eccentricities of Whistler and his quarrels with English artists and critics during his long residence in London from 1859 were, for a long time, better known than his paintings.
	www.dromo.info /whistlerbio.htm (1675 words)

	The Detroit Institute of Arts
		In his time, Whistler became as well known for his innovative ideas about art as he was for his letter-writing campaigns, lawsuits and verbal barbs against critics, dealers and other artists who misunderstood his work.
		Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of West Point graduate and civil engineer Major George Washington Whistler and his second wife, Anna Matilda McNeill.
		Whistler was active until shortly before his death from heart disease in 1903.
	www.dia.org /exhibitions/whistlersite/overview.htm (873 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Biography
		Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in the United States.
		Whistler's painting The White Girl (1862) caused controversy when exhibited in London and, later, at the Salon des Refusés in Paris.
		Whistler's belief that art should concentrate on the arrangement of colors led many critics to see his work as a precursor of abstract art.
	www.artinthepicture.com /artists/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler/biography.html (479 words)

	James McNeill Whistler Etchings James McNeill Whistler Biography
		James McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834.
		Whistler spent five years of his childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father, George Washington Whistler (1800-1849), a railroad engineer, was employed in the building of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad.
		Although Whistler won the case, compensation for his financial losses was not forthcoming and his already doubtful reputation was in tatters.
	www.georgetownframeshoppe.com /james_mcneill_whistler_biography.html (765 words)

	WebMuseum: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
		Whistler maintained close ties with France during the London years, and painted at Trouville with Courbet, Daubigny, and Monet in 1865.
		Whistler's art is in many respects the opposite to his often aggressive personality, being discreet and subtle, but the creed that lay behind it was radical.
		Whistler's paintings are related to Impressionism (although he was more interested in evoking a mood than in accurately depicting the effects of light), to Symbolism, and to Aestheticism, and he played a central role in the modern movement in England.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/whistler (1535 words)

	The Detroit Institute of Arts
		In his time, Whistler became as well known for his innovative ideas about art as he was for his letter-writing campaigns, lawsuits and verbal barbs against critics, dealers and other artists who misunderstood his work.
		Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of West Point graduate and civil engineer Major George Washington Whistler and his second wife, Anna Matilda McNeill.
		Whistler was active until shortly before his death from heart disease in 1903.
	dia.org /exhibitions/whistlersite/overview.htm (873 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		Since the autumn of 1869, Whistler was a regular visitor at Leyland’s manor house, Speke Hall, eight miles from Liverpool, where his interest in etching revived and he executed plates of Liverpool docks and of Leyland’s family.
		Whistler probably intended all three paintings to be in his studio when Leyland and the creditors made an inspection of his house in 1879.
		Whistler then made her his ward and executrix; she acted as his secretary until his death in 1903.
	www.abcgallery.com /W/whistler/whistlerbio.html (2608 words)

	University of Glasgow :: Centre for Whistler Studies :: Biographical Notes
		Whistler was established at the forefront of the etching revival.
		Whistler, wishing he had been a pupil of Ingres, began a series of paintings of classically draped women and flowers on a musical theme, known as the 'Six Projects' (Freer Gallery of Art) for the 'Liverpool Medici', the shipowner, F. Leyland.
		Whistler etched but never published several later sets, including a 'Jubilee Set' in 1887, a 'Renaissance set' in France in 1888, and Amsterdam in 1889, 'of far finer quality than all that has gone before – combining a minuteness of detail...
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /html/jmw.htm (2523 words)

	Whistler Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this house, built by the Locks and Canals Company for corporate engineering managers, lived Paul Moody, George Washington Whistler, and later, James B. Francis, all major contributors to American civil and mechanical engineering practice in the nineteenth century.
		Whistler's famous son, artist James McNeil Whistler, was born in the house in 1834.
		The building is a good example of a clapboarded-frame, five-bay, center-hall house of the late Federal style and was one of the most substantial houses built during Lowell's first generation, yet it appears modest by today's standards.
	www.doorsopenlowell.org /whistler.htm (267 words)

	Wake Forest University - Department of Art - Print Collection
		James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 to Major George Washington Whistler and Anna McNeill.
		This was the first of Whistler’s seated female profile portraits, and the figure in the doorway became one of the earliest "themes" of his etchings.
		Delatre probably introduced Whistler to the solution "Dutch mordant" in which plates were bitten.7 Whistler also used the technique of multiple biting, removing the plates from the acid bath and using stopping-out varnish to cover areas which were sufficiently bitten, before immersing the plate again to etch lines more deeply.
	www.wfu.edu /academics/art/pc/pc-whistler-vielle.html (856 words)

	When Was George Washington Born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annie learns all sorts of fascinating info--George Washington Carver was born into slavery, but his dedication when was george washington born and unquenchable thirst for knowledge drove him to become a professor at a time when most institutions of higher learning were closed to fls.
		George Washington Helme - George Washington Helme, the founder of Helmetta, New Jersey, was born in 1822 in Kingston, near Wilkes-Barre, in the coal-mining area of northeast Pennsylvania.
		George Washington Whistler - George Washington Whistler (born May 19, 1800 in Fort Wayne, Indiana - died April 7, 1849 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a prominent American railroad engineer in the first half of the 19th century.
	mo56.3rdfaze.info /whenwasgeorgewashingtonborn.html (676 words)

	ARC ARTicles - Obituary of James McNeill Whistler - Paul Ripley - Page 1/1
		His father was Major George Washington Whistler, an engineer, and his mother a lady of the Baltimore family of Winane - this southern strain of blood helping to explain the extraordinary unlikeness of the most volatile of painters to the staid and serious stock of puritan New England.
		Whistler left it for him and received a cheque for 30 guineas, with which he was well-satisfied.
		Whistler’s book is full of evidence of his colossal vanity, and the stories of his quarrelsomeness are many.
	www.artrenewal.org /articles/2003/Whistler/obituary1.asp (2073 words)

	George Washington Whistler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Washington Whistler (born May 19, 1800 in Fort Wayne, Indiana - died April 7, 1849 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a prominent American railroad engineer in the first half of the 19th century.
		In 1842 Whistler was employed by Engineer Melnikov as a Consultant on the building of Russia's first major railroad, the Moscow-St.
		Stone arch railroad bridges built by George Washington Whistler in 1841 are still in freight and passenger service on the CSX mainline in western Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Washington_Whistler (272 words)

	Canton Viaduct Construction
		Whistler was an early railroad pioneer, and with Jonathan Knight, William Gibbs McNeill and Ross Winans he examined the early railroads of England on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and soon thereafter was engaged to build that railroad.
		Although George Washington Whistler is buried in Stonnington, Connecticut a monument was erected in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York to hail Whistler as a pioneer of early American engineering.
		Whistler married McNeill's sister Anna and in 1871 she sat as a model for their artist son, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, for one of America's most beloved portraits, Whistler's Mother.
	members.cox.net /cv1/construction.htm (1020 words)

	The Art of Sargent & Whistler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1849, Major Whistler died and his wife decided to bring her family to their homeland, setting at Pomfret, Connecticut, where James attended the local school until, in 1851, he entered West Point, the famous military academy.
		Among all subjects Whistler succeeded only in drawing, special difficulties were caused by chemistry, which at last became the reason of his ejection from the academy.
		In 1866, Whistler traveled to South America where the Chileans were engaged in a war against Spain, he kept a journal of naval and military developments but avoided involvement in any fighting.
	www.jkrweb.com /sargent/biography.cfm (1323 words)

	Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
		Whistler maintained close ties with France during the London years, and painted at Trouville with Courbet, Daubigny, and Monet in 1865.
		Whistler's art is in many respects the opposite to his often aggressive personality, being discreet and subtle, but the creed that lay behind it was radical.
		Whistler's paintings are related to Impressionism (although he was more interested in evoking a mood than in accurately depicting the effects of light), to Symbolism, and to Aestheticism, and he played a central role in the modern movement in England.
	www.erudition.ru /referat/printref/id.56983_1.html (1146 words)

	The White Girl: A Deconstruction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whistler wrote that the picture "simply represents a girl dressed in white standing in front of a white curtain."14 It is too obvious for the viewer to ascertain at first glance.
		In Whistler's case, he truly was just painting a model in front of a white curtain, and in his mind, that was what the subject matter of the painting was, a model in front of a white curtain.
		Whistler used these women as he needed them, to model, to keep his house for him, and as it is rumored in the case of Jo, to bear or care for an illegitimate child of his, but he was always emotionally detached from them.
	www.resurrender.com /whistler.html (2378 words)

	James McNeill Whistler Summary
		Whistler returned to America with her sons, settling in Pomfret, Conn. James decided he wanted to go to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which his father had attended, and obtained an appointment in 1851.
		Whistler sued him for libel in what was the most sensational art trial of the century and was awarded a farthing damages without costs.
		Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay [founder of the Grosvenor Gallery] ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of willful imposture.
	www.bookrags.com /James_McNeill_Whistler (2175 words)

	American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whistler's paintings will be juxtaposed with those of his followers, clearly showing how Whistler's artistic inventiveness and radical ideas about composition and color influenced his contemporaries and affected American art.
		Whistler's celebrity was on the rise in the U.S. throughout the 1880s, but he secured enduring fame in 1891, when the French government purchased "Whistler's Mother," one of the most well-known American paintings in the world.
		At the trial, Whistler said this painting was never meant to be "the portrait of a particular place, but only an artistic impression." He won the lawsuit, but was awarded only one farthing, which is equal to a few pennies.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa345.htm (2431 words)

	James S. Robbins on George Washington Whistler on National Review Online
		George W. Whistler’s father, Major John Whistler, was a British soldier of Irish birth who served under Burgoyne at Saratoga, and after he was discharged returned to America to join the U.S. Army.
		Whistler also laid out the route for the Western Railroad linking Boston and Albany, a route so difficult it was said that it would be like laying “a railroad to the moon.” But Whistler completed the project, constructing what was at the time the longest and highest railroad in the world.
		Whistler was popular with cadets and faculty alike, and the son of a West Point legend.
	article.nationalreview.com /?q=YzRiODI3NzU3YjU0YzdiNTg3ODZjNGE2ZTE0NzRhZTU= (1577 words)

	Boothstown - Whistler's Diary
		Anna McNeill Whistler, kept a diary while living in St. Petersburg (1843-1849), where her husband, Major George Washington Whistler, was supervising the construction of the St. Petersburg to Moscow railway.
		He is a great contrast to George at Preston certainly, for he allowed the young mad caps to drive by turns, notwithstanding their having attempted it before asking permission.
		Whistler's diary was supplied to Elizabeth Cook by Evelyn J. Harden, the editor of the diary.
	freespace.virgin.net /tony.smith/whistler.htm (1082 words)

	ArtNotes: James Whistler
		James Abbott McNeill 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.
		After brief stays in Stonington, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, the Whistlers moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where the Major served as an civil engineer for the construction of a railroad line to Moscow.
		After Whistler's At The Piano (Taft Museum, Cincinnati) was rejected at the Salon of 1859 he moved to London, but often returned to France.
	www.ready-to-hang.com /LCP_ArtNotes/James_AM_Whistler_Bio.htm (457 words)

	James McNeill Whistler - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		Whistler settled in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole Imperiale et Speciale de Dessin, before entering the Academie Gleyre.
		After Whistler's At The Piano (Taft Museum, Cincinnati) was rejected at the Salon of 1859 he moved to London (where the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy), and began work on a series of etchings.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?33100 (844 words)

	Whistler in the 1840s
		As Whistler mania seizes Glasgow, we are joining the 2003 centenary celebrations by highlighting a small selection of material from the vast Whistler Archive held in the Special Collections Department.
		Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, James Whistler journeyed to Russia in August 1843 at the age of nine, along with his mother, Anna, his half sister Deborah, and his younger brothers William and Charles; they were escorted by his older half-brother, George.
		They were joining their father (George Washington Whistler) in St Petersburg where he had been employed to oversee the construction of the Russian national railway.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/july2003.html (1986 words)

	Featured Original Art from Cartographic Associates - Online Gallery of Antique Maps, Globes and Prints
		James Abbott McNeill Whistler is one of the most renowned figures in the 19th century art world.
		Whistler made many drawings while he was a West Point cadet, which he left at the age of twenty, in 1854.
		By 1859 Whistler was engaged in his beautiful series of etchings of the Thames.
	www.maps-charts.com /Whistler_Prints.htm (1093 words)

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