Art of James McNeill Whistler : an appreciation / by T.R. Way and G.R. Dennis. (1903)
Way, Thomas R. · G. Bell · leaf 86
cture an Arrangement in Gray andBlack, and protested that the fact of the originalhaving been his mother was no concern of thepublic. To me, he said, it is interesting as a 1 The illustration which we print at the beginning of thisvolume is from the fine bust of the artist modelled in theseventies… … PORTRAIT OF DR. W. M- SKUA. WHISTLER. picture of my mother; but what can or ought thepublic to care about the identity of the portrait?This is true, of course, in a certain sense. Thepainting would appeal to us as a beautiful andwonderful work of art, even though we knew no-thing either of artist…
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