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    Whistler Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Whistler Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Whistler Masterpieces in Colour Series
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    Whistler Masterpieces in Colour Series

    By T. Leman Hare and T. Martin Wood

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Whistler Masterpieces in Colour Series - T. Leman Hare

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Whistler, by T. Martin Wood

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      Title: Whistler

             Masterpieces in Colour Series

      Author: T. Martin Wood

      Editor: T. Leman Hare

      Release Date: November 26, 2012 [EBook #41492]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHISTLER ***

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      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY . .

      T. LEMAN HARE

      WHISTLER

      1834-1903

      In the Same Series

      Others in Preparation.

      PLATE I.—OLD BATTERSEA BRIDGE.   Frontispiece

      (In the National Gallery)

      This nocturne was bought by the National Collections Fund from the Whistler Memorial Exhibition. It was one of the canvases brought forward during the cross-examination of the artist in the Whistler v. Ruskin trial.

      Whistler

      BY T. MARTIN WOOD

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      I

      At the time when Rossetti and his circle were foregathering chiefly at Rossetti’s house, quiet Chelsea scarcely knew how daily were associations added which will always cluster round her name. Whistler’s share in those associations is very large, and he has left in his paintings the memory of many a night, as he returned beside the river. Before Whistler painted it, night was more opaque than it is now. It had been viewed only through the window of tradition. It was left for a man of the world coming out of an artificial London room to paint its stillness, and also to show us that we ourselves had made night more beautiful, with ghostly silver and gold; and to tell us that the dark bridges that sweep into it do not interrupt—that we cannot interrupt, the music of nature.

      The figure of Whistler emerges: with his extreme concern as to his appearance, his careful choice of clothes, his hair so carefully arranged. He had quite made up his mind as to the part he intended to play and the light in which he wished to be regarded. He had a dual personality. Himself as he really was and the personality which he put forward as himself. In a sense he never

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