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Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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ver the picture,sometimes coming only once a week, and we got rather tired of it.One day some friends came to see it. He stood it against a table inan upright position for them to see; it suddenly fell on its face, to mybrothers disgust, as he had just got a new carpet. Luckily Whistlerssky was pretty dry, and I dont think the picture got any damage, andthe artist was most good-natured about my brothers anxiety lest thecarpet should have suffered. The Last of Old Westminster was ready for the Academy of 1863,to which it was sent with six prints : Weary, Old Westminster Bridge,Hungerford Bridge, Monsieur Becquet, The Forge, The Pool. The dignityof composition in the picture and the vigour of handling impressedall who saw it in the London Memorial Exhibition, though they hadto regret its shocking condition, cracked from end to end. It failed toimpress Academicians in 1863, and was badly hung, as were the prints,reproductive work being then, as now, preferred to original etching.72 (1863
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AXXIE HADEN DRY-POINT. G. 62 (JSee page 65) The Beginnings in London The White Girl, after its Berners Street success, was sent by Whistlerto the Salon. He took it to Paris, to Fantins studio, there having it! unrolled and framed. It is hard to say why the strongest work of the! strongest younger men was rejected from the Salon of 1863. Fantin,Legros, Manet, Bracquemond, Jongkind, Harpignies, Cazin, Jean-Paul1 Laurens, Vollon, Whistler were refused. It was a scandal; 1859 wasnothing to it. The town was in an uproar that reached the ears ofthe Emperor. Martinet, the dealer, offered to show the rejectedpictures in his gallery. But before this was arranged, Napoleon III.ordered that a Salon des Refuses should be held in the same buildingas the official Salon, the Palais de VIndustrie. The decree was publishedI in the Moniteur for April 24, 1863. The notice was issued by theDirecteur-General of the Imperial Museums, and the exhibition openedon May 15. The success was as great as the scand

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