Described by Whistler himself as a highly entertaining account of personal revenges, this work is filled with the deadly sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest men of the 19th century. Th
This volume appears just after the centennial of the artist's death and represents the continuing commitment to Whistler scholarship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where Whistler's art has been
In September 1879, James McNeill Whistler boarded the Venice-bound night train in Paris. He was forty-five years old and bankrupt. What was to be a three-month stay in the Italian city--long enough to
The etchings reproduced here were first published in the 1910 catalog by Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched work of Whistler (published by the Grolier Club of the City of New York). Naylor, who selected
