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JAMES ABBOTT Mc NEILL WHISTLER

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White Girl

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Nocturnes

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Nocturne in Bl.ck:and Gold: The F~lling Rod"'t (/874_n)

Whirrl.,-', Tb","" Nocturnes, pain,," during ,b, I 870J, 0".., tb,i,

impir"'ion to ]Ilpa~" pri"", Thit Nocturne, ,":itb in rpangkd Try, glr.',

,j" '" ,11< f,,'"ow tIS)'P"" Ivtt:",u Whirri" and tb. crj,ic Jobn /{wkin

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IT~'ing in Paris fi-'Mn the USA in 1855 , Sl'ccui.,;o" ,,1' Jund,,1. W"" she in a ,rantt? A

)'l1lel Abt..", ,\k"lcili Whistler w-.. nCHOU' }'oung hride? "Ii, """pm" Whi,tlrt

'urmund,,1 I".· a"" of artistic nlentS, p"c his long,nn(Gng n:1~r: ' Th....-c is no sto.-}'.

which included Courl>et, De!" •• , Fan,i,,_ Rut an exerci,., in shadcs of white ,.."l'

b,()"r, M~n'" and l)issaIT<~ ll~ ,tudi,,] undcr in"Mlll'rchcnsiblc to the \r,,,,o.ians, 'nd So ,.."lS

GIL)",c, with Eng6sh ""dm.s who ",li4,,] his 'his allhoITence of namlti,'c. his ref" ... 1 to

naml><'J"nct: and sh''l' wi •. Yet_ hehind the ",()",Iiz.<: th,ough art, his 1'n:li::rcnCt: ~" the

d.n<~fi,,1 ex",rior ".,,, a serious 'piri. wI.> only exquisitely dc<ig""] ""Mnen! ("'tT the <Iiet: of

wan'''] to male .n. lill:: thes<: WCn: "e ... .'

\Vhi"lcr ",,,,cd nJ Lon<1Jn and >how,,] his De'1'in: Frmch st"dio training, \Vhi,rlcr's

fir,t significant ",o.-k, Til< J.j"I, Whiu Girl true,t inspirotion "'"1$ the Japanese print. It

(Symphony in Whiu, '\'0. I) , at the A"ademy. info.-",,,I his latc< paintings, including the