Whistler Daniel E. Sutherland
Whistler Daniel E. Sutherland A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America's artistsThis engaging personal history dispels the popular…
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Whistler Daniel E. Sutherland
A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America's artistsThis engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker. " Sutherland] seeks to get behind the public Whistler . . . The Whistler revealed in these beautifully illustrated pages is an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing.
The portrait of Whistler that emerges is complex and mysterious . . . never judging or condescending to his subject. . . . a measured and scholarly account of an extraordinary life."--Ruth Scurr, Wall Street Journal "The first comprehensive biography of Whistler in at least a generation. . . .