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)
l, dryly replied Whistler. Most of his adversaries were smaller men or,at any rate, lacked the faculty of repartee, andfor a witty man it was easy enough to mockthem out of existence. Only Oscar Wilde,who himself made a profession of scatteringcorrosive epigrams, occasionally got the bestof him.… … Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum, New York MR. KENNEDY! PORTRAIT STUDY. Whistlers Iconoclasm 193 Whistler V. Ruskin libel suit was gotten up,I believe, largely for effect. It happened nat-urally enough, but Whistler made the most ofit. And, from the press agents point of view,it was the…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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