14 MUNSEY’S MAGAZINE his power of observation in any degree He was accomplishing, indeed, with his diminished. The truth is that he kept etcher’s needle just what certain simpler discerning more and more; he discovered folk near by were doing. He was at- nuances which were indescribably diffi-… … cult to perceive, and these he recorded makers he must often have seen bending with matchless freedom and vivacity. over their work in some sunlit doorway With each step forward he acquired in- or seated at a quiet window. creased facility and precision of pattern. The Whistler of the etchings,…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
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