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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 68 |
| United Kingdom | 8 |
| Australia | 5 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Colby College Museum of Art, USA |
6 |
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Worcester Art Museum, USA |
4 |
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La Biennale di Venezia, Italy |
4 |
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Taft Museum of Art, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1834 Born in Lowell, MS (US)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born the third son of West Point graduate and civil engineer Major George Washington Whistler, and his second wife Anna Matilda McNeill. After brief stays in Stonington, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, the Whistlers moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where the Major served as an civil engineer for the construction of a railroad line to Moscow. James Abbott was aged nine when his family moved to Russia, and he spent several of his childhood years there, studying drawing at the Imperial Academy of Science.
He soon became an inveterate traveller. In 1848 he went to live with his sister and her husband in London, and after his father's death the following year the family returned to the United States and settled in Pomfret, Connecticut. Whistler enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1851, where he excelled in Robert W. Weir's drawing class. He was dismissed from the academy in 1854 for "deficiency in chemistry", and after brief periods working for the Winans Locomotive Works in Baltimore, and the drawings division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (he learnt etching as a US navy cartographer), resolved to become an artist and moved to Europe permanently in 1855.
Whistler settled in Paris first, where he studied at the Ecole Impériale et Spéciale de Dessin, before entering the Académie Gleyre. He made copies in the Louvre, acquired a lasting admiration for Velázquez, and became a devotee of the cult of the Japanese print and oriental art and decoration in general. Through his friend Fantin-Latour he met Courbet, whose Realism inspired much of his early work. The circles in which he moved can be gauged from Fantin-Latour's Homage to Delacroix, in which Whistler is portrayed alongside Baudelaire, Manet, and others. He quickly associated himself with avant garde artists, and was influenced by Courbet's realism, as well as the seventeenth century Dutch and Spanish schools. With Henri Fantin-Latour and Alphonse Legros, he founded the Société des Trois.
17.7.1903 Died
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Public exhibitions 97
until 10.1.2010
until 3.1.2010
Solo shows 28
2009
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| Whistler: The Gentle Art of Making Etchings - Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight |
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| James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| James Abbot McNeil Whistler: Realism in Prints from the Dr. Richard L. Shorkey Collection, Art Museum of Southeast Texas - El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX |
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| Whistler: The Gentle Art of Making Etchings - Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland) |
2008
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| Whistler & the Figure: Prints from the Lunder Collection - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
2007
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| Whistler at Work: The Process of Printmaking - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Whistler and Printmaking - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
2006
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| James McNeill Whistler - Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
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| Whistler as Printmaker - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
2005
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| James McNeill Whistler - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| An artist abroad - the prints of James McNeill Whistler - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
2004
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| Incisive Vision - The Prints of James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
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| American Attitude: Whistler & His Followers - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
2003
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| James McNeill Whistler - Symphony in Black and White - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Whistler and his Circle in Venice - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2002
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| James McNeill Whistler - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
1999
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| The Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Whistler - Impressions of an American Abroad - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
1998
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| Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1995
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| Whistler Prints - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
1987
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| Whistler as an Engraver - Musée d´Orsay, Paris |
1982
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| Whistler's World: The Master's Etchings - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1950
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| Whistler Etchings - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
1947
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| Etchings by James McNeill Whistler - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1934
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| Whistler: Portrait of the Artist's Mother - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1884
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| Etchings by J. M. Whistler - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
Group shows 67
2009
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| Paper Chase: Works on Paper by William Merritt Chase and his Contemporaries - Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY |
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| American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Coming of Age. American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City |
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| The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900 - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Turner to Cezanne - Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC |
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| The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Children in American Art - The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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| Homer, Whistler, Marin and Bellows: American Prints from the Farnsworth - Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME |
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| SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| Inner Space - Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH |
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| Dawn of a Colony: St Ives 1811–1888 - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Music and Modernism in the Graphic Arts, 1860-1910 - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
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| American Art 1850s-1950s - Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (England) |
2007
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| Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX |
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| Impressionists by the Sea - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Leaving a Mark: The Winston and Ada Eason Collection - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| International & Australian Works on Paper - Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2006
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| La Belle Epoque: Works on Paper 1885-1915 - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| etching revivals - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt |
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| Coming of Age - American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Light Impressions: American Works on Paper 1875-1925 - Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950 - Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| Art Adored: Icons from the Permanent Collection - Mississippi Museum of Art MMA, Jackson, MS |
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| Eye on the Collection - Toward Abstraction - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Americans in Paris 1860-1900 - The National Gallery, London (England) |
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| Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
2005
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| Marine - Paintings of the Sea - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Monet und Camille - Frauenportraits im Impressionismus - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
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| Whistler- Music - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| From Albright to Zinnias - American Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Capturing Beauty - American Impressionist and Realist Paintings - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Printmaking Methods - Lithography - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Dromen van Dordrecht - Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht |
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| Turner Whistler Monet - Tate Britain, London (England) |
2004
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| Turner-Whistler-Monet - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris |
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| Nature Sublime - Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| Edouard Manet - Impressions of the sea - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| An Accumulation of Convention: En Masse - Samson Projects, Boston, MA |
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| The etching revival in Europe - late nineteenth- and early twentieth century Fre - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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| 1904 - Art at the Fair - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939 - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS |
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| The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| The Artist Observed - Portraits and Self-Portraits - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2003
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| Printmaking Methods - Etching - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| The Changing Garden - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Victorian Life - Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight |
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| Verschlossene Welten - Druckgraphik des Symbolismus - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
2002
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| Whistler, Sargent, and Steer - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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| Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| The Joan Whitney Payson Collection - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
2001
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| The Kindness of Friends - A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919–200 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| American Impressionism - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| British Etchings Whistler to Freud - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
2000
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| The Joan Whitney Payson Collection - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
1998
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| Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Beauty Contest: Quality in Prints - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
1997
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| American Art from the Dicke Collection - The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
1996
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| Stanze pour la peinture - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
1995
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| Whistler vs. Sargent: Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Dialogues - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Life Lines: American Master Drawings 1788-1962, from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
1931
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| Masters of Ukio-ye and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Western Prints - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1905
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| 6. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1905 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1903
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| 5. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1903 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1897
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| 2. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1897 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1895
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| 1. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1895 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
| Dealer Directory 5 |
Canada
| | Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON
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Spain
| | Archeles Ediciones de Arte, Ciudad Real
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USA
| | Aaron Galleries, Chicago, IL
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| | Keny Galleries, Inc., Columbus, OH
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| | Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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Public collections 46
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Finland
| | Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
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France
| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Germany
| | Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
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Iran
| | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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Ireland (Republic)
| | Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo
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Japan
| | NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
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New Zealand
| | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
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Spain
| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland)
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| | SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
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USA
| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
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| | Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX
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| | Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham
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| | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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| | Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
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| | Mississippi Museum of Art MMA, Jackson, MS
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| | Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
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| | University of Kentucky Art Museum (UK Art Museum), Lexington, KY
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| | Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
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| | Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
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| | Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
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| | David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
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| | Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
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| | Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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| | Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
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| | Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
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| | Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA
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| | ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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| | Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
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| | The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
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