James Abbott McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
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Collected by major museums
Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Selected exhibitions
2015
Whistler's Mother: Grey, Black, and White,
Clark Art Institute
Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler,
Colby College Museum of Art
2014
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames,
Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries
James Abbott McNeill Whistler changed the course of art history with his radical techniques and adoption of Asian design principles, which emphasized a two-dimensional flattening of painted forms and their arrangement into abstract patterns. A London-based expatriate, Whistler embraced and promoted the doctrine that …
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