Word: whistlerisms
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...period pieces has not yet arrived. "While his star appears to be rising again," Rathbone wrote in the exhibition catalogue, "critical opinion is not yet willing ... to admit that he is the artistic peer of his now more securely established American contemporaries-Homer, Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Ryder and Whistler...
...hangs by a Sargent; in the Chinese Loggia there is an early French French statute of a Madonna and Child; in the Raphael room, a bronze Roman bowl stands next to a Botticelli; and eighteenth century French bread cake lies near a magnificent self-portrait by Rembrandt; near several Whistler pastel is a collection of lace in a cabine which hides a hot air vent, in the Veronese room. "It is truly a human museum," says Carter...
...fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would look at his own portrait and sardonically quote Whistler: "The innate vulgarity of the subject almost exceeds that of the painter...
...Beaux Arts Gallery, Artist Smith produced 15 examples of what he calls life's "acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith: "They may be resigned, even despairing, but they're still trying to live...
Could an agent of the Soviet MVD seriously believe that such force could be of help to her now? Whistler Khokhlov was whistling in the dark...