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Whistler, James

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  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.


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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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