Whistler House Museum of Art Downtown Lowell First Thursdays
Marieke Slovin performs in the Whistler House Museum of Art on July 3, 2014 as part of the Downtown Lowell First Thursdays.
The Whistler House Museum of Art, located in Lowell, Massachusetts, is the historic birthplace of the famous American artist, James McNeill Whistler. Established in 1878, as the Lowell Art Association Inc., it is the oldest incorporated art association in the United States. It is known internationally for its distinguished collection of 19th and early 20th century New England representational art. The Whistler House hosts many exhibits, lectures, concerts, educational and community programs, and an array of social events in the residence, gallery and adjoining Victorian park. The WHMA is located on 243 Worthen Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hours of operation are Wednesday through Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm.
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Whistler House Museum of Art
The Whistler House Museum of Art is committed to preserving the birthplace of James McNeill Whistler, one of America's premier artists; raising awareness in the Greater Merrimack River Valley about the history of the house itself and the works of its original residents, innovators of the American Industrial Revolution; educating the public about 19th Century American art and promoting current research and exhibitions related to Whistler, the house, Lowell and regional artists.
Lowell joins other communities across the country in celebrating the projects and activities funded through grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Community Development including the Community Development Block Grant, the Home Investment Partnerships Program, and Emergency Solutions Grant Program. The organizations featured in this film (program/segment/whatever is appropriate) are supported in part by these federal programs to provide a variety of services for Lowell's most vulnerable populations. During CD Week, many of these organizations, along with community groups will host open houses and tours to showcase their programs to the public. More information, including a complete schedule of events can be found at lowellma.gov.
Whistler House Museum of Art - Community Development Week
Nancy Donahue
Governor Baker introduces Nancy at the 2019 Massachusetts Governor's Award Dinner. Nancy Donahue was a founder of the Merrimack Repertory Theater, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and she currently serves as board chair. She has helped revitalize Lowell over the past four decades as a board member—and in many cases a founder—of regional organizations, including the Cultural Office of Lowell, Lasell College, the New England Quilt Museum, UMass Lowell, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (where she served as the first woman board president), the former American Textile Museum, and the Whistler House Museum of Art, where she is now board chair.
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Once the site of the industrial revolution, Lowell is now in the midst of an artistic, cultural revolution.
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LOWELL, MA: Inventive Spaces: Making a Place for Art in Lowell | Places of Invention
Presented by Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and the American Textile History Museum as part of the Smithsonian’s PLACES OF INVENTION Affiliates Project, made possible thanks to a generous grant from the National Science Foundation.
藝苑掇英 James McNeill Whistler 詹姆斯·麥克尼爾·惠斯勒 (1834-1903) Aestheticism Tonalism Impressionism Americans
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James McNeill Whistler (b Lowell, Mass., 11 July 1834; d London, 17 July 1903). American painter, printmaker, and designer, active mainly in England. Initially he was called James Abbott Whistler, but after his mother's death in 1881 he added her maiden name to become James Abbott McNeill Whistler for a time, and eventually he dropped the ‘Abbott’. He spent part of his childhood in Russia (where his father had gone to work as a civil engineer) and was an inveterate traveller.
His training as an artist began indirectly when, after his discharge from West Point Military Academy for ‘deficiency in chemistry’, he learnt etching as a US navy cartographer. In 1855 he moved to Paris, where he studied intermittently under Gleyre, made copies in the Louvre, acquired a lasting admiration for Velázquez, and became a devotee of the cult of the Japanese print (see Ukiyo-e) and oriental art and decoration in general. The circles in which he moved can be gauged from his friend Fantin-Latour's Homage to Delacroix, in which Whistler is portrayed alongside Baudelaire, Manet, and others. He settled in London in 1859, but often returned to France. His first major oil painting, At the Piano (1858–9, Taft Mus., Cincinnati), was well received at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1860 and he soon made a name for himself, not just because of his talent, but also on account of his flamboyant personality: he was famous for his wit and dandyism, and loved controversy. He enjoyed a lavish lifestyle and was often in debt. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Oscar Wilde were among his famous friends.Whistler's art is in many respects the opposite to his ostentatious personality, being discreet and subtle, but the creed that lay behind it was radical. He believed that painting should exist for its own sake, not to convey literary or moral ideas, and he often gave his pictures musical titles to suggest an analogy with the abstract art of music: ‘Art should be independent of all claptrap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it, and that is why I insist on calling my works “arrangements” and “harmonies”.’ He was a laborious and self-critical worker, but this is belied by the flawless harmonies of tone and colour he created in his paintings, which are mainly portraits and landscapes, particularly scenes of the Thames. No less original was his work as a decorative artist, notably in the Peacock Room (1876–7) for the London home of the Liverpool shipping magnate Frederick Leyland (now reconstructed in the Freer Gallery, Washington), where the graceful, stylized patterning anticipated much in the Art Nouveau style of the 1890s (Aubrey Beardsley saw the room in about 1891 and was greatly impressed by it). In 1877 Whistler showed his Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875, Detroit Inst. of Arts) at the opening exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery. Ruskin attacked it in print, accusing him of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the public's face’, and Whistler sued him for libel. He won the action, but the awarding of only a farthing's damages with no costs was in effect a justification for Ruskin, and the expense of the trial led to Whistler's bankruptcy in 1879—a tribulation he endured with dignity. His house was sold and he spent a year in Venice (1879–80), concentrating on the etchings that helped to restore his fortunes when he returned to London. He was one of the greatest of all etchers (some critics rank him second only to Rembrandt) and also made lithographs. In his fifties he began to achieve honours and substantial success (he also made a happy marriage, in 1888, to Beatrix Godwin, widow of the architect E. W. Godwin, with whom he had collaborated, but she died only eight years later). In 1891 his portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1872–3) was bought by the Corporation of Glasgow, becoming the first of his oils to enter a public collection in Britain, and in the same year his most famous work, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (1871), was bought by the French state (it is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Whistler's paintings are related to Impressionism (although he was more interested in evoking a mood than in accurately depicting the effects of light), to Symbolism, and to Aestheticism, and he played a major role in introducing modern ideas to British art. Those who were most immediately influenced by him included his pupils Walter Greaves (1849–1930), Gwen John, the Australian-born Mortimer Menpes (1860–1938), and Walter Sickert. His aesthetic creed was explained in his Ten O'Clock Lecture (1885) and this, and much else on art and society, was republished in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890).
詹姆斯·惠斯勒（James McNeill Whistler，1834年7月11日－1903年7月17日），著名印象派畫家，父親是美國工程師，全家曾居於聖彼得堡。惠斯勒曾入讀西點軍校，之後自選畫家為職業。
Visual Voices Art from Lowell Public Schools
Artwork by dozens of talented student artists in grades K-12 from 25 Lowell public, private, parochial and charter schools is on view through the end of April 2014 in Visual Voices VI: Science and Art!
The biennial show was started in 2002 at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios by Lolita Demers, a Brush resident artist and Lowell public school art teacher. It has become a citywide tradition, thanks to Demers' efforts and those of art teachers across the district, four local art galleries and the city's student artists.
This year's focus is on art projects about science, with varied scientific subjects and art mediums featured at each gallery, including the Brush, 256 Market St.; Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) Gallery, 246 Market St.; Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St.; and Zeitgeist Gallery, 167 Market St.
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Sleeper-McCann House Essex County project by Olivia Laughlin
This is my Essex County project for American History class. I researched the Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester.
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Digging Up The Past: Uncovering the Acres Roots
March 2012 talk by St. Patrick's Parish historian Dave McKean & Walter Hickey on archaeological work done in 2010 & 2011. Early look at Lowell's Irish population in the mid 19th century.
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The Worthen House written and performed by Melvern Taylor.
History of Lowell, Massachusetts / History of towns in United States
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
County: Middlesex
City: Lowell
Population (2014)
• Total 109,945
• Density 7,667/sq mi (3,079.7/km2)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler | Wikipedia audio article
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
00:01:06 1 Early life
00:01:15 1.1 New England
00:03:11 1.2 Russia and England
00:05:30 1.3 West Point
00:07:06 1.4 First job
00:08:20 1.5 Art study in France
00:10:53 1.6 London
00:12:41 2 Early career
00:15:10 3 Mature career
00:15:20 3.1 Nocturnes
00:18:15 3.2 Portraits
00:18:57 3.2.1 iWhistler's Mother/i
00:22:33 3.3 Other portraits
00:24:29 3.3.1 Technique
00:25:36 3.4 Printmaking
00:26:52 3.5 Butterfly signature and painting settings
00:27:46 3.6 iThe Peacock Room/i
00:29:49 3.7 Ruskin trial
00:34:24 4 Later years
00:46:45 5 Personal relationships
00:51:50 6 Legacy
00:55:11 7 Honors
00:55:51 8 Gallery
00:56:00 9 Auction records
00:56:36 10 See also
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo art for art's sake. His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for it combined both aspects of his personality: his art is characterized by a subtle delicacy, while his public persona was combative. He found a parallel between painting and music and entitled many of his paintings arrangements, harmonies, and nocturnes, emphasizing the primacy of tonal harmony. His most famous painting is Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), commonly known as Whistler's Mother, the revered and often parodied portrait of motherhood. Whistler influenced the art world and the broader culture of his time with his artistic theories and his friendships with leading artists and writers.
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Merritt Roe Smith is the Leverett and William Cutten professor of the history of technology and a contributing author to Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision, a book edited by Professor David Kaiser and published by the MIT Press in collaboration with the MIT150 program. Professor Smith is a former director of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and one of the architects of MIT's doctoral program in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, which he also directed for many years. A former Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, Professor Smith served as president of the Society for the History of Technology and received the Leonardo da Vinci medal, the society's highest honor. He is a housemaster at Burton-Connor, one of the largest MIT dormitories.
Lowell, Massachusetts | Wikipedia audio article
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Lowell, Massachusetts
00:01:12 1 History
00:04:10 2 Zoning, development and the Massachusetts Miracle
00:07:17 3 Geography
00:08:03 3.1 Physical
00:10:38 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:13:46 4 Demographics
00:18:03 4.1 Crime
00:18:41 4.1.1 Statistics
00:19:37 4.1.2 History of anti-crime efforts
00:20:56 5 Education
00:21:05 5.1 Colleges and universities
00:21:54 5.2 Primary and secondary schools
00:22:03 5.2.1 Public schools
00:23:04 5.2.2 Private schools
00:23:12 6 Libraries
00:23:21 6.1 Municipal
00:23:29 6.1.1 Pollard Memorial Library / Lowell City Library
00:25:26 6.2 University
00:25:35 6.2.1 Lydon Library
00:26:08 6.2.2 O'Leary Library
00:26:38 6.2.3 Center for Lowell History
00:27:40 7 Infrastructure
00:27:49 7.1 Transportation
00:30:00 7.2 Hospitals
00:30:13 8 Arts and culture
00:30:22 8.1 Monthly Calendar of Events and Entertainment
00:30:42 8.2 Annual events
00:32:16 8.3 Points of interest
00:34:16 8.4 Culture
00:35:07 8.5 Museums and public galleries
00:35:59 8.6 Interactive and live performances
00:37:54 9 Sports, Teams and Athletic Venues
00:38:04 9.1 Boxing
00:38:38 9.2 Teams
00:39:13 9.3 Athletic Venues
00:40:34 10 Government
00:42:53 11 Media
00:43:01 11.1 Newspaper
00:43:35 11.2 Radio
00:44:03 11.3 Cable
00:44:18 12 Businesses started and/or products invented in Lowell
00:44:29 12.1 Current
00:45:19 12.2 Historical
00:46:24 12.3 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (current)
00:47:44 12.4 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (closed)
00:48:15 13 Notable people
00:48:27 14 Twin towns and sister cities
00:48:38 15 Honors
00:49:02 16 See also
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Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 109,945 in 2014, it is the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.
Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories. Many of the Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide, the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population.Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education.
Postage stamps and postal history of the United States
The history of postal service of the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters, whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later also encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal pre-payment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
In the earliest days, Ship captains arriving in port with stampless mail would advertise in the local newspaper names of those having mail and for them to come collect and pay for it, if not already paid for by the sender. Postal delivery in the United States was a matter of haphazard local organization until after the Revolutionary War, when eventually a national postal system was established. Stampless letters, paid for by the receiver, and private postal systems, were gradually phased out after the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, first issued by the U.S. government post office July 1, 1847 in the denominations of five and ten cents, with the use of stamps made mandatory in 1855.
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Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession Naming Event
A special event celebrating the naming of the Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. In addition, Professor Jayanth Krishnan will be named the Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law at this event. Milton Stewart, '71, and his wife, Judi, have generously supported the Law School and our students for many years. We hope you can attend as we honor these two remarkable friends and congratulate Professor Krishnan.
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The history of postal service of the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters, whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later also encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.In the earliest days, ship captains arriving in port with stampless mail would advertise in the local newspaper names of those having mail and for them to come collect and pay for it, if not already paid for by the sender. Postal delivery in the United States was a matter of haphazard local organization until after the Revolutionary War, when eventually a national postal system was established. Stampless letters, paid for by the receiver, and private postal systems, were gradually phased out after the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, first issued by the U.S. government post office July 1, 1847, in the denominations of five and ten cents, with the use of stamps made mandatory in 1855.
The issue and use of adhesive postage stamps continued during the 19th century primarily for first class mail. Each of these stamps generally bore the face or bust of an American president or another historically important statesman. However, once the Post Office realized during the 1890s that it could increase revenues by selling stamps as collectibles, it began issuing commemorative stamps, first in connection with important national expositions, later for the anniversaries of significant American historical events. Continued technological innovation subsequently prompted the introduction of special stamps, such as those for use with airmail, zeppelin mail, registered mail, certified mail, and so on. Postage due stamps were issued for some time and were pasted by the post office to letters having insufficient postage with the postage due to be paid to the postal carrier at the receiving address.
Today, stamps issued by the post office are self-adhesive, and no longer require that the stamps be licked to dissolve the glue on their back. In many cases, post office clerks now use Postal Value Indicators (PVI), which are computer labels, instead of stamps.Where for a century-and-a-half or so, stamps were almost invariably denominated with their values (5 cent, 10 cent, etc.) the United States post office now sells non-denominated forever stamps for use on first-class and international mail. These stamps are still valid even if there is a rate increase. However, for other uses, adhesive stamps with denomination indicators are still available and sold.