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...late famed Joseph Pennell used to say that an etcher who did not print his own plates was not an artist but a manufacturer. The collector sees but half the beauty in a Whistler etching until he realizes how elegant Jimmy deepened his blacks by rebiting with stronger acid, lightened unnecessary lines by brushing them with varnish...
...Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest to the U. S. public today if her son James Abbott McNeill Whistler had not grown to be a great artist, had not painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past the outraged admissions committee of the Royal Academy. One of the best known portraits in the world, it last week arrived in the U. S. for the first...
Mincing Jimmy Whistler with his colossal conceit,* his rouged cheeks, his monocle, was a master of composition, of repartee and publicity but he knew very little about the chemistry of his craft. Because he used poor colors and sometimes repainted his canvases a dozen times, many of the best Whistlers are physically disintegrating. Not so the "Mother," whose color is as fresh, as luminous as it ever...
...Poems Morton Clark Bradley Soldlitz: History of Japanese Color Prints George Frank Emerson Butron's Anatomy of Melancholy Henry Greenberg Whitman: Leaves of Grass Harlan Michael Levin Van Doren: Anthology of World Poetry Arnold George Malkan Walton: Compleat Angler Isadore Paisnor James: Charles W. Eliot Robert Chester Smith Whistler's Works Francis Van Vanice James: Charles W. Eliot Class of 1934 Henry Aranow Education of Henry Adams Milton Bornstein Combe: Tours of Dr. Syntax Harold Simson Cone Morison: Development of Harvard University Robert Calhoun Creel Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci William Frederick Ebling Sheridan: The Critic Edward Settle Godfrey Morison...
Listed in the general pussification was an original Rembrandt etching ("The Holy Family With Cat"); an Egyptian tomb cat from Cairo; a 15th Century German woodcut; prints by Whistler, Pennell, Félicien Rops, Foujita, Wanda Gag; Currier & Ives lithographs; needlepoint and embroidery cats; and a fine carved cat by Sculptor William Zorach...