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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker. He studied drawing in St. Petersburg and etching as a student at West Point. He immersed himself in Realism in Paris and embraced Aestheticism in London. He spent an extremely productive year in Venice from 1879-1880, before returning to London for much of the rest of his life. Well-known in his own time, Whistler worked prolifically across media and published polemics about the role of art in the modernizing world.

Bolton Coit Brown (1864-1936)

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Bolton Coit Brown was an accomplished lithographer. Born in 1864 in Dresden, New York, Brown studied painting at Syracuse University, and trained through copying popular chromolithographs. In 1887 he traveled through Switzerland, Paris, and London, where he was particularly inspired by J. M. W. Turner. He was a founding member of both the Art Department at Stanford University (1891) and the Byrdcliffe Artists’ Colony (1902).

Ernest Haskell (1876-1925)

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Best known for his illustrations, posters, and etchings, Ernest Haskell was born in Woodstock, CT, in 1876. By age 19 he was living in New York City and producing posters and magazine covers for Scribner’s and The New York Sunday Journal.

Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)

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Equally acclaimed as a painter and photographer, Charles Sheeler was born in Philadelphia, where his training included studies at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His first exposure to European modernism came through a study trip organized by his teacher, William Merritt Chase.
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