
- 186 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Whistler as I Knew Him
About this book
Mortimer Menpes' biography of American painter James McNeill Whistler, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and plates in monochrome throughout. Best known for the painting made depicting his mother, James McNeill Whistler was an American painter who worked mostly in the United Kingdom, his works often sentimental in nature. Mortimer Menpes was a British painter, illustrator and printmaker. He created a form of colour etching, as well as publishing 'War Impressions', the first book to reproduce coloured art works faithfully, making him a pioneer of illustrated art books. Menpes had been a pupil of Whistler, having met him in Brittany in 1880. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Whistler, as well as one hundred and thirty-four plates in colour and black and white. – Print ed.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTORY - WHISTLER THE EXAGGERATED
- CHAPTER I - IN THE DAY’S ROUND
- CHAPTER II - MASTER AND FOLLOWERS
- CHAPTER III - WHISTLER THE MAN
- CHAPTER IV - WHISTLER THE PAINTER
- CHAPTER V - WHISTLER THE ETCHER
- CHAPTER VI - WHISTLER AND THE BRITISH ARTISTS
- CHAPTER IV - WHISTLER AND THE ONE-MAN SHOW
- CHAPTER IV - WHISTLER ON HOUSE DECORATION
- CHAPTER IV - WHISTLER ON HIS TRAVELS
- JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER - AMERICAN: 1834-1903
- JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER - AMERICAN: 1834-1903
- JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER - AMERICAN: 1834-1903