Leading Whistler scholar Margaret
MacDonald from the Department of Art
History, University of Glasgow, talks about
the artist and the world-famous collection
of his prints, copper plates and other works
at the Hunterian Art Gallery.
Outspoken and argumentative, dressed in his black patent shoes and with a white plume of hair coiffured amongst black waves, the painter James McNeill Whistler (US, 1834–1903) cultivated a charismatic public persona who challenged the art community and elicited the mocking attention of the popular press. Visit exhibition page
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