Identifier: jamesmcnei00penn (find matches)
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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the Catalogue. Some are in brown,some in blue, reproduced by the Autotype Company. Nineteen of thetwenty-six are by Whistler, simple and direct, the modelling in thedrawing by the brush as the Japanese would have given it. As a rulethere are neither shadows nor attempts at relief. The series is a refuta-tion of the assertion that he could not draw. Whenever he attempteddrawing of this sort, or etchings like The Wine Glass, he eclipsed Jacque-mart and all his contemporaries. Worried, anxious, the libel casehanging over him, his debts increasing, the general distrust in his workgrowing, Whistler, nevertheless, gave to the catalogue his usual care.We have seen another set of the drawings, which differ slightly fromthose reproduced, and with which, evidently, he was not satisfied. Thebook was edited by Mr. Murray Marks, and issued by Messrs. Ellis andWhite, of 29 New Bond Street, in May, and Mr. Marks exhibited thedrawings and the porcelain, with the book, in his shop, 395 Oxford156 (1878
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WHISTLERS TABLE PALETTE (Seepage 114 The Grosvenor Gallery Street. The show was not a success, the book was a loss, thoughonly two hundred and twenty copies were printed. Now it is almostimpossible to get. Of personal notice, Whistler had more than enough. He wascaricatured this year in The Grasshopper at the Gaiety—it was in thedays of Edward Terry and Nellie Farren. A large full-length, thoughtby many more a portrait than a caricature, was painted by CarloPellegrini, an Italian artist who lived in England and, under the nameof Singe and Ape, contributed to Vanity Fair caricatures which,unlike the characterless, artless scrawls of his more popular amateursuccessors, were works of art and, therefore, appreciated by Whistler.The painting shows Whistler in evening dress, no necktie, and a goldchain to his monocle; and in a scene parodying the studios and artistsof the day, it was pushed in on an easel, some say by Pellegrini, withthe announcement, Here is the inventor of black-and-whi

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