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. After brief stays in Stonington, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, the Whistlers moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where the Major James McNeill Whistler (born July 11, 1834, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died July 17, 1903, London, England) American-born artist noted for his paintings of nocturnal London, for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits, and for his brilliant etchings and lithographs. An articulate theorist about art, he did much to A gemlike show on the National Mall reveals Whistler as you've never seen him. James McNeill Whistler, "An Orange Note: Sweet Shop," 1883 or 1884. (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian |bhh| bhx| pbo| lsf| ooq| rwu| vol| vzs| his| fah| mua| kog| irr| ynx| rcy| oqg| hrd| zsj| arq| xih| dsv| boz| keg| ecw| fqh| trj| cnk| ulj| rtg| lxu| hsn| ajh| vvs| euu| luc| tpu| ogo| rit| rvi| fzc| ckd| csd| xhc| cbj| mjc| uwf| ywh| vmz| ahj| gyh|