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	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)

	James McNeill Whistler
		James McNeill Whistler, the painter of that most American of works--the very icon of American motherhood--"Arrangement in Grey and Black" (better known, of course, as "Whistler's Mother"), ironically left the United States at the age of twenty-one, never to return.
		Although a contemporary of the Impressionists, Whistler walked his own path from the Realism of Courbet to an aesthetic approach of "Art for Art's Sake." As one of the first westerners to be influenced by the artistic tradition of Japan, Whistler developed an aesthetic response to living.
		Whistler directed the model to hang her arms listlessly and maintain an expressionless face to ensure the exclusion of narrative.
	www.artchive.com /glyphs/whistler/index.html (1677 words)

	ASU Art Museum \| Collections: James McNeill Whistler
		As a child, Whistler lived with his family in Russia and later in London with his sister and her husband Francis Seymour Haden who introduced Whistler to prints and printmaking techniques.
		Whistler produced several other series of prints including the "French Set," the "Venice Set," and the "Nocturnes." This last series, done in the 1870s were severely criticized by John Ruskin causing a great set back in Whistler's financial and professional career.
		Lochnan, Katharine A. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler.
	asuartmuseum.asu.edu /collections/paper/whistler1.htm (519 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		“James McNeill Whistler’s position in the history of British art is as paradoxical as his personality: flamboyant dandy and wit, he was also a serious craftsman, tirelessly dedicated to the perfection of his art.
		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.
	www.abcgallery.com /W/whistler/whistlerbio.html (2608 words)

	Whistler, James Abbott McNeill - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whistler was dismissed from West Point for insufficient knowledge of chemistry and from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he had learned etching and map engraving, for erratic attendance.
		Settling in London in 1859, Whistler became known as an etcher, a wit, and a dandy.
		Whistler was the author of brilliant critical essays and aphorisms.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-whistler.html (706 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Bio
		James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the American expatriate whose philosophy “l’art pour l’art” [art for art’s sake]; significantly influenced European and American artists in the late nineteenth century, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
		Whistler won the case, one of the most celebrated of its kind, but the expense of the trial forced him into bankruptcy.
		Whistler’s popularity and the demand for his work continued to grow throughout his later years, but ill health kept him from the studio.
	www.phillipscollection.org /american_art/bios/whistler-bio.htm (468 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		James McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Mass., on July 10, 1834, the son of Major George Whistler, a railroad engineer.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/james-abbott-mcneill-whistler (1280 words)

	James Abbot McNeill Whistler
		Whistler was born on July 10, 1834, in Lowell, Massachusetts.
		Three of Whistler's best-known portraits, Arrangement in Black and Grey No. 1: The Artist's Mother (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Thomas Carlyle (1872-1874, City Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow), and Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander (Tate Gallery, London) were painted around 1872.
		Toward the end of his life, when he lived in Paris, Whistler came to be regarded as a major artist.
	members.tripod.com /sepias/4Whistler.html (518 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)

	handprint : james mcneill whistler
		Whistler's mother took the children to live in London in 1847, then returned to the USA after her husband's death from cholera in 1849.
		In the early 1860's Whistler met D.G. Rossetti and Albert Moore (1841-1893); with Moore he developed the tenets of "Art for Art's sake," titling his works after musical compositions to affirm that they should be seen for their abstract qualities, free of the literary or moral ideals of the Pre-Raphaelites.
		Whistler spent his last years destroying many early paintings and drawings from his Paris studio and working on a full length self portrait, Brown and Gold, which was displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1900 but continually revised up to Whistler's death in London in 1903, at age 69.
	www.handprint.com /HP/WCL/artist11.html (1379 words)

	Whistler - AMAM
		Whistler sketched this evocative view of Venice on the copper etching plate from a vantage point on an island in the lagoon.
		Whistler left for Venice in September 1879 with his mistress Maud Franklin, and returned to London in November 1880, with fifty etchings, around one hundred pastels, and several paintings.
		Whistler attended the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1852-54 and then worked briefly for the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Washington, D.C., where he learned to etch maps and topographical plans.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/whistler.html (1943 words)

	James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whistler, known as both a rebel and an aesthete, is one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century.
		Because of Whistler's lack of coherent style, his belief in aesthetic art, and rejection of traditional story-telling or moral art, and his exploration of any mediums, the public often did not know what to make of Whistler, and so he was never as famous or given as much credit as other artists of this period.
		James McNeill Whistler Etchings and Lithographs at The Cummer (1/5/99)
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/5aa/5aa55.htm (1701 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler
		Whistler's own revenge was to decorate the south wall with a design of two squabbling peacocks, one rich and the other poor, somewhat in the manner of an Edo period Japanese screen.
		Whistler's impressionistic and evocative style was, of course, the very thing that Ruskin hated most, and he pulled out all the stops: "The ill-educated conceit of the artist...
		In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, by Eric Denker.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/W/whistler.html (2004 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Artist Biography, Whistler Artist Biography, Barewalls.com
		James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, a fact of which he did not care to be reminded.
		Whistler's works aroused the antagonism of the critic John Ruskin, and the artist's sharp-tongued reply to that gentleman's remarks ended in a famous lawsuit from which Whistler emerged a technical victor.
		Whistler's works have an exquisite charm; his landscapes are airy, his portraits ethereally wistful.
	www.barewalls.com /artistbio/James_Abbott_Macneill_Whistler.html (315 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler
		James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter and etcher, who assimilated Japanese art styles, made technical innovations, and championed modern art.
		The primary title of the portrait of his mother, Anne Matilda McNeill Whistler, which he painted when she visited him in London, was "An Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1" (1871, Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
		It is ironic that the portrait of Whistler’s mother, noted in its day for its lack of sentimentality, is regarded today as a glorification of motherhood.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-Whistler.htm (979 words)

	James McNeill Whistler - Great Artists in History
		James Abbot McNeill Whistler was born in America, yet he spent much of his life abroad.
		James McNeill Whistler is born in Lowell Massachusetts
		Whistler's father resigns from his army commission and moves his family to St Petersburg in Russia where he works as the Tsar's engineer.
	www.theartgallery.com.au /Whistler.html (832 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Whistler Oil Paintings, Whistler Biography & Whistler Gallery
		James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born on July 10, 1834 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
		Whistler was an extrovert who often allowed fact to become merged with fiction.
		Whistler referred to himself as "the butterfly" and used a butterfly motif as his signature.
	www.huntfor.com /absoluteig/whistler.htm (280 words)

	James McNeill Whistler
		James McNeill Whistler was one of the most controversial American artists of his time.
		Whistler spent his boyhood in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father was working as a railroad engineer.
		Whistler is said to have imposed himself on his age because of his dissatisfaction with the clutter and detail of conventional painting.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Newsletters/1998/July98-3.htm (579 words)

	Amazon.ca: James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth: Books: Ronald Anderson,Anne Koval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born in Mass., raised partly in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father was a railway engineer, American painter James McNeill Whistler settled in Paris in 1855, then in 1859 in London, where he cultivated the image of an irascible dandy and lone genius.
		Here, independent Whistler scholars Anderson and Koval systematically debunk the myths surrounding Whistler's life and work (e.g., the importance of Whistler's American roots), which were spawned by Joseph and Elizabeth Robbin Pennell's sympathetic 1908 biography, The Life of James McNeill Whistler (A.M.S. Pr.).
		This life rendering of many faceted artist James McNeill Whistler is fine reading and a treasured contribution to the annals of art history.
	www.amazon.ca /James-McNeill-Whistler-Beyond-Myth/dp/0786710322 (605 words)

	James McNeill Whistler Biography (Artist) — Infoplease.com
		Also known as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, his deft brushwork and mighty ego made him one of London's best-known painters in the second half of the 1800s.
		Born in Massachusetts, Whistler spent most of his adult life in England and France, in an era when an American artist in Europe was something of a rarity.
		James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonne (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) by Margaret F. MacDonald
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/jamesmcneillwhistler.html (395 words)

	University of Glasgow :: Centre for Whistler Studies :: The Correspondence
		Whistler Collections in Glasgow and Washington D.C. The University of Glasgow and the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., hold the foremost collections of works of art by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and work in partnership to further research and publication on Whistler and his art.
		The University of Glasgow, as residuary legatee of Whistler’s estate through the will of his executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip, holds Whistler’s copyright and has supported the publication of the correspondence as part of its commitment to make its collections available to researchers and the general public.
		Whistler is referred to throughout the edition as ‘JW’ and Anna Whistler as ‘AMW’.
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /correspondence/index.htm (1041 words)

	BBC - Painting the Weather - Whistler
		Born in the United States, Whistler trained in Russia and France before settling in London.
		Whistler took John Ruskin to court for accusing him of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face’.
		Any form of reproduction, transmission, performance, display, rental, lending or storage in any retrieval system of the images displayed on this website without the written consent of the copyright holders is prohibited.
	www.bbc.co.uk /paintingtheweather/csv/artist/whistler.shtml (146 words)

	The Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler
		The Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler
		The son of an engineer, Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, but his family moved in 1843 to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father was involved in building a railroad to Moscow for Czar Nicholas I. After a childhood marred by poor health, Whistler returned to the United States in 1849.
		While in France Whistler was influenced by the controversial realism of Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877), who maintained it was an artist's right to paint portraits and genre scenes of the lower classes without idealization and on the large scale formerly reserved for royalty or aristocracy.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa80.htm (710 words)

	WebMuseum: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
		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.
		James Abbott was aged nine when his family moved to Russia, and he spent several of his childhood years there, studying drawing at the Imperial Academy of Science.
		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)

	James McNeill Whistler Online (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whistler's students included Gwen John, Walter Greaves, Mortimer Menpes, Lawton Parker, David Ericson and Harper Pennington.
		James McNeill Whistler in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		James McNeill Whistler Etchings & Lithographs at The Cummer
	www.artcyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /artists/whistler_james_mcneill.html (920 words)

	James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
		The expatriate American artist James McNeill Whistler was born in Massachusetts, studied art in Paris from 1855 to 1859, and spent most of the rest of his life in London.
		As an art student, Whistler was strongly influenced by seventeenth-century Dutch and Spanish art, and by the realism of Gustave Courbet (1819–1877).
		Whistler first achieved critical and commercial success as an etcher, producing meticulously drawn prints of working-class life in rural France and London.
	www.asia.si.edu /exhibitions/current/whistler.htm (357 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Artistically precocious and eager to expand his artistic training beyond that he had received as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, James McNeill Whistler left America for France in 1855, never to return.
		But always a rebel, personally and professionally, Whistler soon became his own most important instructor, absorbing myriad influences from the richly textured world of contemporary French art.
		The numerous portraits that Walter did of Whistler are a reflection of his affection for the charismatic artist.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/brush/whist.htm (175 words)

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