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Whistler was an interesting artist. He was fascinated with the ordinary jobs most people did, running shops, making clothes, building bridges, and though he necessarily had to take commissions from the wealthy, for instance in doing portraits like the one immediately below, his focus was clearly elsewhere when he didn\u2019t need to do otherwise economically. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":62043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14163],"class_list":["post-62040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-artist-of-the-ordinary"],"yoast_head":"\n
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