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RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS

OF

JAMES A. McNEILL WHISTLER

Contents
Illustrations
Index

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Copyright, 1903
By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published November, 1903


Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

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FOREWORD

Most of what is contained herein has been collected from time to timewithin the past ten years and jotted down for use in certain lectures onWhistler and his art. The lectures were, as is this book, a tribute tothe great painter.

The reminiscences are mostly personal. Many of the anecdotes—thoughperhaps equally familiar to others—were had from the artist’s own lips.The views concerning his art, whether right or wrong, were formed whilewatching him at work day after day, and after many interviews in which,now and then, he would speak plainly concerning art. At the same timenot so much as a thought must be attributed to him unless expresslyquoted.

The biographical data—just sufficient to furnish a connecting threadand aid in the appreciation—have been gathered from casual sources, andare, no doubt, subject to incidental corrections.

Only when a duly authorized “life and letters” is published by those whohave access to the material that must exist will the great artist beknown by the world as he really was—a profoundly earnest, serious,loving, and lovable man.

Meanwhile, those who believe in his art must—like the writer—speaktheir convictions for what they are worth.{9}{8}

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