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James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty

2014
56m
Biography
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Cast

Daniel Arbon (James McNeil Whistler)Evangelos Alexiou (Charles Drouet)Penny Fuller (Anna Whistler)Edward Hibbert (Sir John Holker)Richmond Hoxie (John Ruskin)Anjelica Huston (Narrator)Kevin Kline (James McNeill Whistler)Jay Russell (William Merritt Chase)Ashley Smith (Critic)Jon Patrick Walker (Oscar Wilde)

Director

Norman Stone

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Synopsis

From PBS - Best known for the groundbreaking portrait of his mother, James McNeill Whistler was the original art star. But beneath the high gloss, the struggle of this genius to find his own voice resulted in a breakaway style that moved painting towards abstraction and would revolutionize the art world in his time-and beyond.

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