Copyright, 1903
By J. B. Lippincott Company
Published November, 1903
Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.
To L. O. E.
This Sixteenth Day of September
Nineteen Hundred and Three
FOREWORD
Most of what is contained herein has been collected from time to time within the past ten years and jotted down for use in certain lectures on Whistler and his art. The lectures were, as is this book, a tribute to the great painter.
The reminiscences are mostly personal. Many of the anecdotes—though perhaps equally familiar to others—were had from the artist’s own lips. The views concerning his art, whether right or wrong, were formed while watching him at work day after day, and after many interviews in which, now and then, he would speak plainly concerning art. At the same time not so much as a thought must be attributed to him unless expressly quoted.