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...Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata...
...answer to John H. Hammond Jr. [TIME, May 7] is that he should read Whistler's "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies," and see how utterly impossible it is for a police official to appreciate...
...this connection it is significant, however, that such artists as Rembrandt, Tiepolo and Whistler are represented. Moreover, there are two groups which show a specialization in collecting not unworthy of a museum. One of these is a collection of small engraved silver snuff boxes; the other consists of miniatures comprising examples painted by Copley and Benjamin West. John Paul Jones, Robert Morris, Charles Sumner and two signers of the Declaration of Independence are among the subjects of this collection...
...Thompson has stated that all the works of Sargent and many of those of Whistler will son be valueless because of serious cracking or fading of the paints used by the artists...
...migrated naturally to England, tilting his easel outside a Cotswold cottage wherein Henry James and Edmund Gos.se were busy writing. He painted Stevenson pacing thoughtfully in velveteen jacket. He took Whistler's egg-colored studio in Tite Street, London, and deprecated with amused humility a chorus of praise that arose, swelled and continued without interruption during his life...