Whistler's pastels - and other modern profiles - by A. E. Gallatin. (1913) (14761664636)

Identifier: whipast00gall (find matches)
Title: Whistler's pastels : and other modern profiles / by A. E. Gallatin.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Gallatin, A. E.
Subjects: Pastel Drawing
Publisher: John Lane Company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO



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s of endless museums. Nothing inthe whole range of Whistlers art is finerin quality than such a design of his asthe Venus Astarte, which is comparableto a Tanagra, while certain other of thenudes and lightly draped figures, some ofthem in their accessories containing a de-cided Japanese motive, are also possessedof the true classic spirit. Whistlers water-colours are asperfe6lin their way as the pastels. The artist hasnever strained his medium,hasnevertriedtoget the same results as if usingpigment.Very often his drawings in water-colourare not much more than notes, with the c 9: result that they are always surprisinglyspontaneous and fresh in appearance, andthat his delicate and transparent washesof captivating colour are always a delight.What Viollet-le-Duc wrote of the lead-workers of the Middle Ages, and the rea-son for the charm existing in their work,is also true of Whistlers water-colours:The means they employed and theforms they adopted are exa6lly appro-priate to the material/
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WHISTLER On the Mersey