He sued the greatest living art critic of his era, John Ruskin, who didn't like Whistler's concoctions of the day—precisely the series of moody moonlit visions of the Thames now on display at ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist who spent much of his life in London, so it's no surprise he was drawn to create sketches and paintings of the Thames and its snaking course ...

Throughout the 1860s and 1870s Whistler was drawn to the bustling and rapidly changing urban neighbourhood surrounding Battersea Bridge - and, of course, to the River Thames that flows beneath it.

ART AT HOME AND ABROAD; Exhibition of Lithographs by Whistler at Munderlich's Gallery in a Distinct Class by Themselves. Charming View of the Thames in One of the Productions and Another Superb ...

The exhibition's focus is on "what I call Whistler's obsession with the Thames and the bridges and the people and the life of the Thames," co-curator Margaret MacDonald, a former art history ...

The Thames also takes on a gentle ... I find his process beautiful and striking. In this way, Whistler’s painting constitutes a poetic act of remembering. “Nocturne in Blue and Silver ...

Being a waterman at Chelsea on the Thames was a good way to get to know ... river scenes lacked the sophistication of Whistler’s art, but had a simple boatman’s directness and integrity.

The Courtauld Gallery’s “Monet and London: Views of the Thames ... Avoiding Whistler’s vagueness and pursuing Dickens’s reflections, Monet structured his paintings around three landmarks ...

The artist’s etching of the Thames River, Black Lion Wharf (1859), hangs on the wall behind his mother, while one of Whistler’s kimonos covers the left corner of composition. The painting’s ...

The painting known as "Whistler's Mother" is on display in Philadelphia for the first time in nearly 150 years. It's one of the best-known paintings in the world — and it has a backstory.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, born in 1834 in Lowell, Massachusetts, was a figure of significant contradiction and innovation in the 19th-century art world. His journey from West Point cadet to ...

One of the world's most famous mothers traveled from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month, and seems to like it. She's getting lots of attention from visitors ...