Volume 21, Number 13 · August 8, 1974
On the Make in Paris and London
By Douglas Cooper
Whistler: A Biography
by Stanley Weintraub
Weybright and Talley, 498 pp., $12.50
Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J.A.M. Whistler
by Roy McMullen
Dutton, 307 pp., $10.00
Since Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell published their Life of Whistler in 1908—with revised editions appearing until 1920—followed by The Whistler Journal in 1921, no alternative biography of any consequence, drawing on all of this basic material with the addition of much that has become available from different sources subsequently, has made its appearance. Stanley Weintraub, an experienced writer about the nineteenth century, has at last undertaken this task. And he has produced a well documented, diverting, and well characterized study, which delivers Whistler into our hands with all his panache, Yankee impertinence, artistic cult mania, falseness, and blemishes of character.
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