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)
n graduated monochromes, of whichhe held the secret. The strangest thing about these rooms of hiswas, that they always looked complete. Therewas no space, apparently, for more than he putin them. So great was the art in his arrange-ments of colour and a few pieces of ordinaryfurniture — a… … ARRANGEMENT IN GRAY AND GREEN: MISS ALEXANDER. Symphonies in Interior Decoration 109 fectly placed pictures, a vase, perhaps a pairof them, upon the mantel, and matting on thefloor, were literally all that any room I everknew him to occupy appeared able to contain.There was a sense of finish and…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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