Word: whistlerisms
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...smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian etchings, but greatly admired the Marin water colors which were in reality shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a laborious technical...
...funny. You Were Perfectly Fine is a dialog between a man with a hangover and a girl who tells him what he did last night. Each revelation bends him a little further. The Sexes, also a dialog, pictures the love-life of a "sheik," a flapper. The Mantle of Whistler is a dialog between a girl and a man, just introduced, both of whom have a reputation for wisecracking to keep up. Nothing but a succession of thin-worn comebacks; it gives the impression of being itself a wisecrack about wisecracking...
...artists sometimes worry about U.S. art, wonder why it is not bigger & better, why so many U. S. artists have been expatriates, literally or in spirit. Critic Josephson here collects a formidable array of case histories: James Whistler, Lafcadio Hearn, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Henry Adams, Henry Harland, Stuart Merrill, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein...
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When Louisine Waldron Elder of Philadelphia was a small speculative girl in pigtails she carefully hoarded her pennies and bought a picture from elegant, irascible James A. McNeill Whistler. So impressed was Whistler with little Louisine's good judgment that he gratefully sent her copies of several of his etchings. That was the beginning of the collection exhibited last week. Years later Louisine met and married another collector, the late Henry Osborne Havemeyer, potent sugarman, President of American Sugar Refining Co. It was no longer necessary to save pennies. Together they wandered about the world, buying magnificently...