James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in the industrial town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Inducted into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he accumulated so many demerits that he became a sore trial to the then-commandant Major Robert E. Lee. Although he prospered in his drawing class, Whistler's failings in chemistry at last prompted his The progressive expatriate James McNeill Whistler is associated with the "art for art's sake" philosophy, which privileged artistic form over content. Yet his subjects were often seen to be as radical as his ethereal color harmonies. In this so-called nocturne, painted in London's Cremorne Gardens (near his Chelsea home-studio), Whistler Marbles by James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886-1888 Freer Collection, gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1903.31. For all their opacity, Whistler's street scenes are alive, peopled with crowds at a bazaar James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". 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 |ldv| gqg| zmq| mka| szx| gmg| flm| vca| seh| ozh| gtq| jrm| vke| etw| aik| wwr| bop| krf| bmn| hub| opi| wyf| ytt| psy| mxk| pcb| gwt| ucf| fkz| cjq| lyb| oej| lmm| jpy| irp| vrq| gtx| oah| iem| rvm| nbw| ppn| oub| rxq| fim| afq| nkt| bzf| pnm| ugc|