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James McNeill Whistler (James Abbott McNeill Whistler, b. 1834, Lowell / Massachusetts, d. 1903, London) was a painter and graphic artist. He was friends with Gustave Courbet and Henri Fantin-Latour - they called themselves 'Société des Trois'. Important works are 'At The Piano' 1859 and 'Symphony in White, no. 1: The White Girl, 1862.

Victorian style, realism, symbolism

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ADDISON Andover Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Belvedere, Wien Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham/Alabama Block Museum of Art, Evanston Colby Museum of Art, Waterville Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington DIA Detroit Institute of Arts Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence Davison Art Center, Middletown DePaul University Museum, Chicago Farnsworth Art Museum Figge Art Museum, Davenport Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor / De Young Freer Gallery & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington Frye Art Museum, Seattle Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Honolulu Academy of Arts Hunterian, Glasgow ICA Richmond Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Miami University Art Museum, Oxford / Ohio Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Middlebury College Museum of Art Mills College, Oakland Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg / Florida Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Musée Jenisch, Vevey National Gallery of Art, Washington ° Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art Reading Public Museum ° Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg Smithsonian Institution, Washington Speed Art Museum, Louisville Sweet Briar College Art Gallery Tate Collection The Nelson, Davis UK Art Museum, Lexington University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie Wichita Art Museum Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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