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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; bequest of Albert E. Gallatin, 1952
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.65.74
Exhibition Label
Born Lowell, Massachusetts
An innovative painter and printmaker, James McNeill Whistler explored abstract qualities of atmosphere, color, and line in his landscapes and portraits. Although arguably the most famous American artist of his day, Whistler spent most of his life in Europe. In Paris and London, he dominated avant-garde artistic circles and heightened his celebrity through his wit and self-fashioning. Joseph Edgar Boehm sculpted this bust in 1872, the year Whistler exhibited his now famous Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1871) at the Royal Academy in London.
Nacido en Lowell, Massachusetts
Pintor y grabador de ideas innovadoras, James McNeill Whistler exploró las cualidades abstractas de la atmósfera, el color y la línea en paisajes y retratos. Aunque quizás fue el artista estadounidense más famoso de su época, pasó casi toda su vida en Europa. En París y Londres dominó los círculos artísticos de vanguardia; su ingenio y el cultivo esmerado de su imagen aumentaron su celebridad. Joseph Edgar Boehm creó este busto en 1872, año en que Whistler expuso en la Real Academia de Londres su ahora famosa obra Arreglo en gris y negro núm. 1: Retrato de la madre del artista (1871).
Provenance
Albert E. Gallatin [1881-1952]; bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art 1952; transferred to NPG 1965
