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)
ar, and The TenOclock, delivered in London, February,1885; in Cambridge, March 24th; and Ox-ford, April 30th of the following year, andpublished in 1888, created a sensation. Theyscarcely embrace five thousand words of read-ing matter. Whistlers diction was exceedingly terse andpoignant and he… … Owned by Howard Mansfield ARCHWAY, VENICE (PASTEL). Whistlers Iconoclasm 183 critics were written largely for effect. A wellturned phrase was to him the ideal of dictionand no doubt he rewrote every sentence a dozentimes before he allowed it to go out to thepublic. It was to him a part — and a…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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