James Abbott Mcneill Whistler (Noun)
Meaning
United States painter (1834-1903).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist active during the American Gilded Age and the Belle Époque.
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834 and grew up to study art in France and England.
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, an American-born, British painter created art in the Realist Tradition and the Aesthetic Movement.
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler's most famous painting is probably Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, a portrait of his mother.
- The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler influenced the movement from Realism and tonal Impressionism to Symbolism and Abstract art.