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| James McNeill Whistler art links |
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 |
James McNeill Whistler Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Many prints online, along with a couple of watercolours
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 NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
James McNeill Whistler at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
James McNeill Whistler at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Exhibition - American Attitude: Whistler & His Followers
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Portrait study of a man
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Studies of Rosettes
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.
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Variations in Violet and Green
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
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
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
James McNeill Whistler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
James McNeill Whistler at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Hundreds of works from the gallery's American collection, mostly by Whistler
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Study for Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink (Mrs. Frederick R. Leyland)
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Rotherhithe
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
3 works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Wapping (Rotherhithe), 1860
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
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)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
One work illustrated on this page; keep clicking "Next" in the article for two more
Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota
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
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
Many works online
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
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Page forward to see additional works on the next page
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 NEW!
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Gray and Gold - The Golden Bay, 1900
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Chelsea Reach (The Thames), ca.1875
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington, Pennsylvania
The Forge, etching
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Scotland
The Doorway
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Scotland
The Bead Stringers
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
Billingsgate
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
4 works online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum of London, UK
Battersea Reach from Lindsey House, 1864-71
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Old Battersea Bridge
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
The Adam and Eve, Old Chelsea
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Crepuscule in Flesh Color and Green: Valparaiso, 1866
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
James McNeill Whistler at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
No Day Without A Line: Whistler in the Archives of American Art
James McNeill Whistler at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Two online exhibits: James McNeill Whistler Interactive
Online guide to Whistler's "Peacock Room"
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
39 works online (click "Artwork by This Artist" to see the complete list)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Pink and Gold: The Neapolitan, ca.1897
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Limehouse, 1878
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Coast of Brittany
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Whistler House Museum Of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine, 1863-64
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
7 works online when last checked
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
4 works online
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Port (Amsterdam or London)
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
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
Essay on Arrangement in Grey and Black, No 1 (The Artist's Mother), 1871
The New Yorker
"Whistler at the Frick", brief 2009 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker
"Whistler, Women, and Fashion" at the Frick, 2003 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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