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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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boyhood, and Whistler feltthe Doctors death acutely. It made him the more ready to rejoinhis friends in London, and two months later found him staying withMr. Heinemann, who had moved from Whitehall Court to NorfolkStreet. There E. dined to meet him the evening after his arrival. Mr.Arthur Symons gives, in his Studies in Seven Arts, his impression of thedinner, and of Whistler : I never saw anyone so feverishly alive as this little old man, withhis bright withered cheeks, over which the skin was draw^n tightly, hisdarting eyes, under their prickly bushes of eyebrow, his fantasticallycreased black and white curls of hair, his bitter and subtle mouth, and,above all, his exquisite hands, never at rest. To us the idea of his age was never present. He seemed theyoungest wherever he was. But to those who saw him for the firsttime it was evident that he was growing old. And he had been beforethe public for so long that people got an exaggerated idea of his age.Mr. Symons continues :364 (1900
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SHOP WINDOW AT L-IEPPE WATER-COLOUR (Seepage 348) The International Some person officially connected with art was there, an urbanesentimentalist ; and after every official platitude there was a sharpcrackle from Whistlers corner, and it was as if a rattlesnake had leaptsuddenly out. When the urbane sentimentalist remarked that there neverwas such a thing as an art-loving people, an artistic period, Whistlersaid : u Dear me ! Its very flattering to find that I have made you seeat last. But really, you know, I shall have to copyright my littlethings after this ! When someone objected to the good manners of the French, becausethey were all on the surface, Whistler suggested, Well, you know,a very good place to have them. CHAPTER XLIII: THE INTERNATIONAL. THE YEARSEIGHTEEN NINETY-SEVEN TO NINETEEN HUNDREDAND THREE. That artists should hold Exhibitions of International Art was Whistlersidea. He had always hoped for a gallery where he could show hiswork in his own way with the work of men i

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