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)
virility,delicacy and precision the line of a masteretcher. In his paintings Whistler sacrificed line toomuch. He felt that he had to find a mediumin which he had absolute freedom to satisfy hisdesire and so he alighted upon etching. Adraughtsman so sure of himself, so adroit atrealizing by simple… … LA VIELLLE AUX LOQUES (ETCHING). In Quest of Line Expression 149 Whistler proved himself a successful etcher.True enough, his earliest work, like La Vi-eille aux Loques, La Marchande de Mou-tarde, La Cuisine, and La Mere Gerard,betrays a keen sense of the beauty of material;but they are, after all,…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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