Feast of Darks
Christine Stansell: Whistler, 23 October 2003
Whistler, Women and Fashion
by Margaret MacDonald and Susan Grace Galassi et al.
Yale, 243 pp., £35, May 2003,0 300 09906 1 Show More
by Margaret MacDonald and Susan Grace Galassi et al.
Yale, 243 pp., £35, May 2003,
Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship
by Sarah Walden.
Gibson Square, 242 pp., £15.99, July 2003,1 903933 28 5 Show More
by Sarah Walden.
Gibson Square, 242 pp., £15.99, July 2003,
“... Compared with his closest American contemporaries, John Singer Sargent (also working in England), Thomas Eakins (determinedly homebound) and Mary Cassatt (moving between France and America), Whistler seems lightweight. He possessed neither Sargent’s bravura as a portraitist at the centre of the Anglo-American beau monde nor Eakins’s moral passion at the ... ”