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)
anat-icism, his adventurous tastes and theories, allhave an American physiognomy. If there isanything that will make him an American itis the aptitude for labour, free association, andpractical adaptation. That he left America never to return againis no compliment to our country, but he, nodoubt,… … ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE: L AMERICAINE. The Story of the Beautiful 239 painters, but he would never have become theWhistler we know to-day. Like all our painters of merit, Fuller, Ab-bott Thayer, Winslow Homer, Homer Mar-tin, to mention but a few, he would have re-tired into solitude, he…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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