Word: whistler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West Point Cadets. Most of the innumerable Nazi uniforms sprang from the fertile brain of Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Lieut-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- Powell...
...Whistler's Mamma...
Following the centennial of the birth of James Abbot McNeill Whistler, British reporters interviewed Mortimer Menpes, one of the last of Whistler's surviving friends and pupils. Said this etcher and watercolorist, amid the cucumbers and carnations of his Berkshire truck garden : "The curious thing about Whistler was that he was simply no good at the technical side of his job. Even his best-known picture, The Artist's Mother, is fading rapidly. ... He hardly ever talked to us of America except to tell us of his experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy...
...Whistler was a cadet at West Point for one year...
...Braque whom Mr. Craven damns with glee. Most readers will find his statements as exhilarating and convincing as a homerun. Art dealers and Francophile connoisseurs will be less pleased with what he has to say. Examples : ". . . After 60 years of exploitation, the best examples of Impressionism [Manet, Seurat, Whistler, Pissarro, Monet] are controlled by the original underwriters, Durand-Ruel, which firm slowly releases its enormous stock at propitious moments. . . . Actually they are worth from $25 to $50, but they are sold in terms of old masters-according to scarcity values. "It is talk that keeps Picasso's pictures alive...