fact need not astonish us, for sometimes they reach thevery limits of the painters art, and even penetrate beyond intothe artificial paradises of Poe and Baudelaire. The nocturne,as Mr. Whistler has often conceived it, is suggestive ratherthan evocative, and it may convey no meaning whatever… … PORTRAIT OF MISS CORDER.From the painting l>y James McNeil Whistler. AMERICAN ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 93 Mr. Whistler is great because from the beginning he gaveplay to his individuality, evolved a preconceived way of lookingat nature, or, in other words, a partipris to which he…
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