Whistler as I knew him . FROM PICKLED-HERRING STAIRS. la THE ETCHER Many people look upon Whistler more as anetcher than as a painter. That was for a simple rea-son. Whistlers pictures have been bought only bythe few, and are exhibited at galleries but etchings, on the other hand, are scattered broad-cast in hundreds of homes and exhibitions. There-fore, it is his etchings, not his pictures, that havegained for him the universal admiration and recogni-tion of the world. From his very earliest daysWhistler was an etcher. I met at a dinner-partya lady who went to a quaint little schoo
Whistler as I knew him . FROM PICKLED-HERRING STAIRS. la THE ETCHER Many people look upon Whistler more as anetcher than as a painter. That was for a simple rea-son. Whistlers pictures have been bought only bythe few, and are exhibited at galleries but etchings, on the other hand, are scattered broad-cast in hundreds of homes and exhibitions. There-fore, it is his etchings, not his pictures, that havegained for him the universal admiration and recogni-tion of the world. From his very earliest daysWhistler was an etcher. I met at a dinner-partya lady who went to a quaint little school withWhistler when they were both very young. Regularlyevery day small Jimmie would escort her home, andAvas continually bringing her little love poems anddrawings, many of which she possesses now. Sheremembers well one examination time when they all,both boys and girls, had to draw maps. LittleWhistler drew a map so extraordinary that she beggedhim to give it to her after it had been exhibited atthe school. She thought there never was such a mapâ
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