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Birth
1834 (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Death
1903 (London, England)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts / England/France
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
figure, landscape, and portrait painting, etching
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Categories of Interest
New York Armory Show of 1913
Impressionists Pre 1940
Painted in Latin America
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
Tonalism
Modernism
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| Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, James Whistler became one of the most
influential late 19th-century American painters and etchers, although
he lived primarily in England. He worked in a wide variety of
styles that included Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau.
He was especially influential in the Tonalist movement and was a
catalyst for those who wanted to break away from prescribed academic
methods, credited with being the first American modernist to influence
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