music all petty and exacting details vanish and i see thing as they are in greattrong masses. The buttons are lost but the garment remains. The sitter is lost but the shadow remains. The shadow is lost but the picture remains. Anthat, night cannot efface from the painter imagination James Mcneill whistler. Narrator painter, printmaker, designer, and critic whistler was one of the most original and controversial artists of his time. He was born in 14, in the Industrial Town of lowell, massachusetts. When he was nine years old his father was hired to oversee construction of a railway in russia the family moved to st. Petersburg. Whistler later claimed that cosmopolitan city as his birthplace. I shall be born when and whe i want and i do not choose to be born at lowell. After eight years in russia, the fami returned and settled pomfret, nnecticut. rapid drumbeats in 1851, whistler entered the military academy at west point. Whistler was often in my room and there made skches in india ink.
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