Title:
Whistler Also Had a Father, Who's Buried in Stonington
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Artist, James McNeill Whistler's father
Not just Whistler's Mother, Whistler's Father
Stonington Cemetery and George Whistler's grave
Railroads
Not just Whistler's Mother, Whistler's Father
Stonington Cemetery and George Whistler's grave
Railroads
Object ID:
Kim10-098
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
09/11/2006
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Most art appreciation classes show James McNeill Whistler's painting of his mother, a paint often called Whistler's Mother. But Whistler had a father, George Washington Whistler, and when you ride Amtrak from New London to Boston, you pass over roadbeds his father surveyed and where he supervised the laying of the original tracks for Connecticut's first railroad. George Whistler's expertise was in demand on a global level. He has been called the founding father of American civil engineering. In 1842 he was employed by Czar Nicholas I of Russia. He died there April 7, 1849 but his wife had his body shipped to Stonington where he is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
People:
Whistler, George Washington
Whistler, James McNeill
McNeill, William Gibbs
Palmer, George (Dr.)
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia
Whistler, James McNeill
McNeill, William Gibbs
Palmer, George (Dr.)
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia
Search Terms:
art appreciation
Whistler's Mother
Whistler's Father
Amtrak
Connecticut's first railroad
railroad tracks
Stonington's Evergreen Cemetery
American civil engineering
Moscow
Whistler's Mother
Whistler's Father
Amtrak
Connecticut's first railroad
railroad tracks
Stonington's Evergreen Cemetery
American civil engineering
Moscow