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He was in poor health prior to his death, and succumbed to disease on July 17, 1903.
Whistler's actual title for the painting was "A study in gray and black", which he subtitled "Mother", so I'm going to assume that's who it was. James MacNeil Whistler was an excellent artist, and his work should be better known than just that one painting.
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James H. Abbott died in 1914.
Jim Abbott was born on September 19, 1967.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born on July 14, 1834.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born on July 14, 1834.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler died on 1903-07-17.
Similar to Impressionism, symbolism, and aestheticism
What we often call "Whistler's Mother" was actually called "Study in Gray and Black." It is only incidentally a portrait of his mother, and was painted for no buyer. He probably painted it as a compositional answer to his fellow artists, who thought he had left the art of painting too far. In other words, he did it to prove his method was sound, his sensibilities intact. Many artists since have considered it to be one of the very first "abstract paintings."
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He was in poor health prior to his death, and succumbed to disease on July 17, 1903.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
After moving to St. Petersburg to join his father a year, the young Whistler took private art lessons, then enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts at age 11.
Andy Warhol is a famous artist. James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Grant Wood and Wassily Kandinsky are famous artists.
Probably James Abbott McNeill Whistler or John Singer Sargent, though they are often associated with European art because they were expatriates.
James McNeill Whistler has written: 'An exhibition of lithographs: December 2nd-January 12, 1974' 'Whistler in London and Paris' 'Exhibition of lithographs by Whistler' 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler' -- subject(s): Exhibitions 'Tracing line through time' 'Etchings and lithographs by James A. McNeill Whistler' 'The lithographs by Whistler' -- subject(s): Lithography 'Notes, harmonies & nocturnes' -- subject(s): Exhibitions 'The Reading Woman' 'Paintings by James McNeill Whistler' 'Whistler's England' -- subject(s): Exhibitions, In art 'Arrangement in white & yellow' -- subject(s): Exhibitions, Etching, Dry-point 'Fleeting Impressions' 'Whistler' -- subject(s): Exhibitions, Portrait painting 'The gentle art of making enemies' -- subject(s): Correspondence, Painters, Criticism and interpretation, Art criticism, Art, Biography, Artists 'Eden versus Whistler, the baronet & the butterfly' 'Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler' -- subject(s): Catalogs, Exhibitions 'Catalogue of a collection of etchings and dry points by Whistler, recently acquired' -- subject(s): Exhibitions 'The etchings of James McNeill Whistler' -- subject(s): Catalogs, Etching 'Catalogue of paintings, drawings, etchings, and lithographs' -- subject(s): Exhibitions 'Whistler and Haden' 'Etchings and lithographs' 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834-1903' 'Songs on stone' -- subject(s): Exhibitions, Lithography 'L' Oeuvre de James Mac Neill Whistler' 'The Studio \\' -- subject(s): Painting