Word: whistlerisms
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...Whistler's etching, The Doorway, sold...
Royal Cortiossoz, New York Tribune critic, spoke for the artists. He said that America has done more in architecture than in any other art. Despite that fact, architects are not famous. Buildings are not signed. Thus, men know of Whistler but not of Richardson who did the Trinity Church at Boston. Thus men know Sargent, but not McKim who did the Pennsylvania station in New York. Other great architects: Bulfinch, Latrobe, McComb, Pope, Platt, Hunt, French...
...Whistler is the greatest single name in the collection. His famous " Peacock Room," transported bodily from London, is there, the room which Whistler painted for the English shipping magnate, Leyland, whom he satirized as a peacock rising from a mound of gold...
...proportion of expatriates among our great artists would partially explain this. Whistler (quarrelsome cosmopolite), Mary Cassatt (grande dame in Paris), John Sargent (brilliant and fashionable London portrait painter) are three of our greatest figures-but hardly expressive of America...
Chesterton said: " It was the whole point of Whistler and his school that they produced the picture without troubling about the meaning. We may say it is the point of Picasso and the rest to paint the meaning without troubling about the picture...