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Butterfly "Encountered" (recto); Sketch for Tailpiece (verso) Wall Art
ART BY: James McNeill Whistler
Butterfly "Encountered" (recto); Sketch for Tailpiece (verso) Wall Art
ART BY: James McNeill Whistler
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Butterfly "Encountered" (recto); Sketch for Tailpiece (verso) is a public-domain artwork by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), dated 1898/99. The artist is catalogued as American. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 2359 × 3000 px (1.4 MB). Catalogued under Drawings and Impressionism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 609 works by James McNeill Whistler, an American artist.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
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