Word: whistler
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...Your Twachtman painted a waterfall that was a waterfall in any country, as Whistler's mother was anyone's mother. He caught the universal idea of art. Art is always universal. It is not New England or the South or New York...
Having elected to resurrect the people who saw the last century out,* Author Beer found that Painter Whistler had cracked out a title for him. "Mauve?" Whistler had mused. "Mauve is just pink trying1 to be purple...
...breakfast for 1,000 was served in the Executive Mansion, Sherry's doing the catering. The wedding gifts included a diamond and emerald bracelet (from the Downtown Tammany Club of New York City), two diamond bracelets, four oriental rugs, a dozen silver plates (from the State troopers), a Whistler etching, two carloads of early American furniture, a sapphire bow, a gold bag containing 50 $20 gold pieces, valuable tapestries, 20 clocks, 25 lamps, 25 chests of silver, 50 sets of dishes. The couple will live in a four-room house in Albany...
Before he died, James Abbott McNeill Whistler sold one of his most famed canvases to the Luxembourg, one of Paris' great art galleries. The consideration for the transfer was small, and Whistler is supposed to have understood that some time after his death it would be translated to the magnificent Louvre and hang among the great masters. Whistler died in 1903, but the picture still hangs in the Luxembourg. It is unusual for paintings to be hung in the Louvre until some 50 years after an artist's death...
...when they make the grand tour, and see at least one canvas on which the paint has been applied by fingers born in America. Last week the Louvre announced that Americans have only to go into the Salle des Etats and see -But what matters it if this famed Whistler hangs in the Louvre or not? In nearly every 100% American home a reproduction of it already hangs. The lady of the house turns to the admiring guest saying: "That lovely one on the left is Old Ironsides, and that sweet one at the right is The Age of Innocence...