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James McNeill Whistler

[American Tonalist Painter and Printmaker, 1834-1903]

• Also known as:  James Abbott McNeill Whistler
• Relationships: Studied under Charles Gleyre.
Whistler's students included Gwen John, Walter Greaves, Mortimer Menpes, Lawton Parker, David Ericson and Harper Pennington.
• Browse all:  American artists  /  printmakers

Paint should not be applied thick, it should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
- James McNeill Whistler, in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

 


 
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Original works by James McNeill Whistler available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
An enormous number of works by James McNeill Whistler online

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Thames from Battersea Reach

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Harmony in Grey - Chelsea in Ice, 1864

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
24 works online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
The Wine Glass, etching, 1858

James McNeill Whistler at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

James McNeill Whistler at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Exhibition - American Attitude: Whistler & His Followers

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by James McNeill Whistler

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Studies of Rosettes

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Portrait study of a man

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Collection of hundreds of works by Whistler. Click "Search the Online Catalogue" and search by titles, artwork medium, or other keyword.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris   NEW!
4 works online

Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris   NEW!
Port (Amsterdam or London)

James McNeill Whistler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
18 works by James McNeill Whistler online

James McNeill Whistler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Harmony in Gray and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander, 1872-74

Musée d'Orsay, Paris   NEW!
Commentary on Variations in Violet and Green

Musée d'Orsay, Paris   NEW!
Commentary on Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
3 works by James McNeill Whistler online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

James McNeill Whistler at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
50 works by James McNeill Whistler

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
3 works online by Whistler

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Info about the 2005 exhibition, An artist abroad: the prints of James McNeill Whistler

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Reading by Lamplight, etching, 1858

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Annie Haden, etching, 1860

James McNeill Whistler at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Pierrot, 1889
Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans, ca.1876-78

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Miss Lillian Woakes, 1890-91

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Soupe à trois sous (Soup for 3 Sous)
Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Study for Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink (Mrs. Frederick R. Leyland)

Anderson Gallery at the VCU School for the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Bibi Laloulette, etching, 1859

Arizona State University Art Museum
Rotherhithe

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia   NEW!
3 works online

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Nocturne in grey and silver, the Thames

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
29 prints online

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
14 works listed, 4 of which can be magnified

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Maude Standing

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Nocturne: The River at Battersea, 1878

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
3 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
One work illustrated on this page; keep clicking "Next" in the article for two more

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
12 works online

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nocturne, the River at Battersea, lithotint, 1878

Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England

Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Fumette, from the series Twelve Etchings from Nature

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Nocturne

Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Whistler and his Circle in Venice

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works online

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
4 works by or related to the artist

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!

Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Smith's Yard

Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Study in Lemon and Turquoise: The Japanese Dress, pastel, ca.1888-90

DePaul University Museum, Chicago
La Marchande de Montarde, etching

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "The Gentle Art: Friends and Strangers in Whistler's Prints"

Frick Collection, New York City
21 works online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Gray and Gold: The Golden Bay, 1900

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Chelsea Reach/The Thames, pastel, ca.1875

Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington, Pennsylvania
The Forge, etching

James McNeill Whistler in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the TITLE to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
4 works online

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
The Sea, 1865

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
The Limeburner, etching, 1859

Museum of London, UK
Battersea Reach from Lindsey House, 1864-71

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Choose the artist in the drop-down list and click "search"

Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Fumette
Victoria Club


Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Annie Seated

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Rotherhithe, 1860

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Billingsgate

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
4 works by James McNeill Whistler online

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Crepuscule in Flesh Color and Green: Valparaiso, 1866

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"

James McNeill Whistler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
No Day Without A Line: Whistler in the Archives of American Art

Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Dozens of works online, mostly by Whistler

Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Two online exhibits: James McNeill Whistler Interactive
Online guide to Whistler's Peacock Room


Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas

Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
19 works online

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Pink and Gold: The Neapolitan, ca.1897

University of Kentucky Art Museum
Limehouse, 1878

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Coast of Brittany

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
5 works online

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine, 1863-64

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

 
Professional Tools:
Artprice Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights

CGFA  

Insecula

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

ArtMagick

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion
Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander

Olga's Gallery

The Athenaeum  
180 works online by Whistler

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
PhotoQuotes

Still Life Paintings: 19th Century Painting Techniques

The Androom Archives
Maud Standing

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

University of Virginia Digital Collections
Falling Rocket: Nocturne in Black and Gold, 1874

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on James McNeill Whistler
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Resource Library Magazine
The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler

Resource Library Magazine
Whistler: Impressions of an American Abroad

Resource Library Magazine
Whistler in Venice: Twenty Etchings from the Collection of C. Boyden Gray

Resource Library Magazine
James McNeill Whistler Etchings & Lithographs at The Cummer

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No 1 (The Artist's Mother), 1871

  
James McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl





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The Artist's Mother
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At the Piano, 1858-59
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