Word: whistler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additions to his own already notable collection of the etchings and documents of James Whistler...
...remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose charm had an immense influence upon him and whose acid humor was not unlike his own. He drank wine with Andrew Lang; he knew Edmund Gosse and F. Hopkinson Smith, "whose books," he said of the latter, "I never could stand?or the sight of him either." Then he came...
...coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James, F. Marion Crawford; what he knows about Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Wells, Shaw, F. Hopkinson Smith ("whom I never could stand personally, or his writings either"). He has told why he was asked to write Whistler's biography; how he came to introduce to the world of art that very pale and precious exquisite, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley...
...organize societies and lecture them when they are organized, on etching and engraving. If there are no societies to address, he is glad to speak in a museum or an art school. Often too he will put what he has to say into print, writing about his friendship with Whistler or this artist or that. Among his friends, it appears is George Bernard Shaw. Last Sunday Mr. Pennell talked about Mr. Shaw in The New York Times magazine section...
...story thins into a string of anecdotes as its author's activities and acquaintance widen. Still painting, he sees much of Whistler, something of Oscar Wilde, of which parasite wit Whistler says: "He picks from our platters the plums for the puddings he peddles in the provinces...