James McNeill Whistler

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Where to see James McNeill Whistler now

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

Washington, DC

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National Museum of Asian Art
A Museum in the Making
27 June 2026 – 1 August 2027
How Charles Lang Freer used his Detroit home as a proving ground for what became the first national art museum of the United States.

Amsterdam

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Van Gogh Museum
Whistler. Dandy and Disruptor
16 October 2026 – 10 January 2027
The first retrospective in the Netherlands devoted to James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903): painter, printmaker, aesthete and enfant terrible.

Image credits

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James McNeill WhistlerMiscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, Public domain
A Museum in the MakingAndrew Jameson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Whistler. Dandy and DisruptorCourtesy of Van Gogh Museum

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