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These miraculous little things alternate between photographic precision and Whistlerian atmospheres, as in “Seascape.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017

There’s nothing particularly innovative about the composition, but the casual, impulsive feel of the etched line is very Whistlerian.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2014

Across the way, “Rain on the River” of 1908, a sweeping view of Riverside Park, busy railroad tracks and the Hudson rendered in misty, Whistlerian grays, has an effortless ease.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2012

On excursions to Dieppe and Venice, he corseted the limp, nebulous, Whistlerian technique with steel-ribbed draftsmanship and an exact sense of time & place.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her dress, according to the Whistlerian phrase just coming into vogue, might have been called an 'arrangement in white.'

From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.