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Reading a Book Wall Art
ART BY: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Reading a Book Wall Art
ART BY: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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About this artwork
Reading a Book is a print, drypoint, with drypoint cancellation, in black ink on ivory laid paper by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), dated 1873/74. The artist is catalogued as American. The source scan comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 1624 × 2691 px (1.0 MB). It is filed under Drawings and Realism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 876 works by James Abbott 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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