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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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sionallyhe came to see us at the atelier in Notre-Dame-des-Champs. Whistler was intimate for awhile with Sir Edward J. Poynter, whoscarcely seems to have understood him. To Poynter Whistler wasthe Idle Apprentice. In his speech at the first Royal AcademyBanquet (April 30, 1904) after Whistlers death, Poynter said:Thrown very intimately in Whistlers company in early days, Iknew him well when he was a student in Paris—that is, if he couldbe called a student, who, to my knowledge, during the two or threeyears when I was associated with him, devoted hardly as many weeksto study. His genius, however, found its way in spite of an excessof the natural indolence of disposition and love of pleasure of whicha certain share has been the hereditary attribute of the art student.And this bit of insolence was the final tribute to his memory paid byBritish Official Art. Whistler was never wholly one of us, Armstrong told us.Whistler laughed at the Englishmen and their ways, above all at the36 (1857
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SKETCHES OF THE JOURNEY TO ALSACE PEN DRAWINGS (See page 44) Student Days in the Latin Quarter boxing and sparring matches in their studios ; he could not seewhy they didnt hire the concierges to do their fighting for them.But he understood the French, and they understood him. He couldspeak their language, he knew Murger by heart before he came toParis, and there got to know him personally. Mr. Ionides says thatonce, on the rive gauche, they met Murger, and Whistler introducedhim. Whistler delighted in the humour and picturesqueness of it,and was always quoting Murger. The Englishmen at Gleyres werepuzzled by him and his no shirt friends as he called one group ofstudents. Every now and then they palled, even on him, and hewould then tell the Englishmen that he must give up the no shirt set and begin to live cleanly. The end came when, during an absencefrom Paris, he lent them his room, luxurious from the student stand-point, with a tin bath and blue china. The no shirt friends couldno

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