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Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903
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A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Denver Art Museum, 1996-06-01 - 1996-08-25)
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A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1996-03-01 - 1996-04-28)
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After Whistler (High Museum of Art, 2003-11-22 - 2004-02-10)
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After Whistler (The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2004-03-06 - 2004-05-20)
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An American in London: Whistler and the Thames (Addison Gallery of American Art, 2014-02-01 - 2014-04-13)
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An American in London: Whistler and the Thames (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2014-05-02 - 2014-08-14)
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Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)
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In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)
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James McNeil Whistler Retrospective (Japan) (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2014-09-13 - 2014-11-16)
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James McNeil Whistler Retrospective (Japan) (The Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014-12-16 - 2015-03-01)
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James McNeill Whistler (National Gallery of Art, 1995-05-28 - 1995-08-20)
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James McNeill Whistler (Tate Britain, 1994-10-12 - 1995-01-08)
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Like Breath on Glass - Painting Softly from James McNeill Whistler through Arthur B. Davies (Clark Art Institute, 2008-06-22 - 2008-10-19)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
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Turner , Whistler , Monet (Musée d'Orsay, 2004-10-16 - 2005-01-16)
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Whistler " The Naval Review " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-05-19 - 2005-08-15)
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Whistler in Paris, London and Venice (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-01-30 - 2015-07-15)
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YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Nocturne in Blue and Silver
1872 to 1878, butterfly added ca. 1885
On view at YUAG