The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works (1910)
were chosen with great discre-tion. Outside of the Valparaiso Harbour picture, a Southampton Water and a St.Marks, Venice, most were devoted to Lon-don. There is a Chelsea embankment in win-ter, a Chelsea in snow and ice, the WestminsterBridge, the Trafalgar Square in snow, and theold Battersea… … The Art of Omission 71 ulous prices, he would not have allowed to goout of his studio. He had the conscience ofthe true artist, but he never went to the ex-treme. He knew when to stop, a quality whichis exceedingly rare. He would never havespoiled a canvas as Maris and Ryder do. Heworked very hard…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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