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Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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sub-title, The Voice of a People explains his object in publishing them. The catalogue ended with the quotation from the Chronique des Beaux-Arts : 11 Au musee du Luxembourg, vient d^etre place de M. Whistler, le splendide Portrait de Mme. Whistler mere, une ceuvre destinee a Veternitides admirations, une ceuvre sur laquelle la consecration des siecles sembleavoir mis la patine dun Rembrandt, dun Titien, ou dun Velasquez. This, in later editions, was followed by the Moral duly credited to the Illustrated London News. Before the show closed the pictures were photographed, and twenty-four were afterwards published in a portfolio called Nocturnes, Marines, and Chevalet Pieces, by Messrs. Goupil. Whistler designed the cover in brown. There were a hundred sets, each photograph signed by him, published at six guineas, and two hundred unsigned at four guineas. An immediate result of the exhibition was that sitters came. One of the first was the Duke of Marlborough, who gave him a commission300 (1892
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PORTRAIT OF MISS MAUD WALLER THE BLUE GIRL OIL (destroyed) From a photograph lent by Mortimer Menpes, Esq. (See page 211) The Turn of the Tide for a portrait and asked him and Mrs. Whistler to Blenheim for the autumn. Whistler wrote the Duke one of his charming letters,*then heard of his sudden death, and said : Now I shall never know whether my letter killed him, or whether he died before he got it. Well, they all want to be painted because of these pictures, but why wouldn't they be painted years ago when I wanted to paint them, and could have painted them just as well ? And he was besieged by Americans, Whistler said, who were determined to pour California into his lap, a determination to which he had no objection. His pockets should always be full, or my golden eggs are addled. He thought it would be amazing fun to be rich. Once, driving with Mr. Starr, he said : Starr, I have not dined, as you know, so you need not think I say this in any but a cold and careful spirit : it is better to l

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