MAGAZINE 8 MUNSEY’S cedents and youthful associations. From countless fairy butterfly wings? You the beginning he displayed a haughty cannot form a valid reply without bear- contempt for externals. It was the idea ing in mind that Whistler began a which attracted him, seldom the fact. realist and… … early Paris days, when he saw so vividly theory of realism in which he became ab- sorbed, not its practise. It is true that and so joyously, to the deepening twilight under the direct influence of Rembrandt of that last quiescent hour in Chelsea when all he had seen and dreamed he painted certain…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
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