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James McNeill Whistler
[American Tonalist Painter and Printmaker, 1834-1903]
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Paint should not be applied thick, it should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
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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
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
Harmony in Grey - Chelsea in Ice, 1864
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
24 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
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
Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris
4 works online
Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris
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
Commentary on Variations in Violet and Green
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
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
James McNeill Whistler at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Pierrot, 1889
Arrangement in Yellow and Grey: Effie Deans, ca.1876-78
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
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)
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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, Tempe
Rotherhithe
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
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
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
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, New York City NEW!
One work illustrated on this page; keep clicking "Next" in the article for two more
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota NEW!
Information about an exhibition exploring the work of Whistler and his followers
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!
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
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
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
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
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
14 works listed, 4 of which can be magnified
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW!
Billingsgate
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
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"
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Reading by Lamplight, etching, 1858
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Annie Haden, etching, 1860
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
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4 works by James McNeill Whistler online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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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
Southampton City Gallery, England
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
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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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
Whistler House Museum Of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts NEW!
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:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 574
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights
CGFA
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
ArtMagick
Artyzm
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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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:
Still Life Paintings: 19th Century Painting Techniques
The Androom Archives
Maud Standing
The Modernist Journals Project
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
Project Gutenberg
Full text of Whistler's The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
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
Time Magazine
"Pleasures of the Iron Butterfly", 1984 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Whistler Unveiled", 1995 article by Robert Hughes
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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