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Whistler As I Knew Him, Mortimer Menpes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introductory
1. In the Day's Round
2. Master and Followers
3. The Man
4. The Painter
5. The Etcher
6. The British Artists
7. The One-Man Show
8. House Decoration
9. Travels

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“In reading this remarkable book, with its exaggerations and distortions of fact, its cutting satire, but withal its under-current of real affection for and appreciation of, its subject, it is impossible to help wondering what the effect of it would have been upon Whistler himself had it been published during his lifetime.” —The International Studio, 1904

An intimate, often eccentric, portrait of the infamous 19th-century artist James McNeil Whistler, written by a loyal but estranged follower. Long out of print, this is the first new edition since the book’s original publication in 1904, the year following Whistler’s death.

"A lifelike picture of the gifted and eccentric 'Master' by one who knew him at close range." —The New York Times, 1904

About the Author

Mortimer Menpes (1855–1938) was, in his own words, “a painter, etcher, raconteur and rifle-shot.” Born in Australia, Menpes moved to England with his family in 1878, where he carried on art studies at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, and exhibited at a Royal Academy exhibition for the first time in 1880. It was around this same time, during a sketching tour of Brittany, he first met James McNeil Whistler.

In 1887, Menpes traveled to Japan and upon his return to London, held his first one-man show, at Dowdeswell’s gallery. His friendship with Whistler dissolved shortly thereafter, and his biography of the artist wasn't published until 1904, the year following Whistler's death.

And don't miss...

Whistler's writing in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, and
Menpes' etching at The Cleveland Museum of Art.