Whistler, James

1. A nineteenth-century American artist who spent most of his career in England and France. He is best known for the painting popularly called Whistler's Mother.

Example Sentences

Whistler, James Abbott McNeil, vi, 339; on art, viii, 363; his criticism of Gustave Dove, iv, 329; his dual character, vi, 333; Etching and Dry Points, vi, 351; Judge Gaynor on, vi, 333; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, vi, 330, 351; 464life of, in Russia, vi, 341; Nocturne, vi, 345; quoted, iv, 116, 220; v, 16; xii, 155; Ruskin and, vi, 330; the Ten o'Clock lecture, vi, 351; Velasquez and, vi, 177, 346.

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Whistler, James McNeill, painter, 107, 117, 122.

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