This man, who took no joy in the ways of his brethren—who cared not for conquest, and fretted in the field—this designer of quaint patterns—this deviser of the beautiful—who perceived in Nature about him curious curvings, as faces are seen in the fire—this dreamer apart, was the first artist.”—Whistler’s “Ten o’Clock.”


RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF
JAMES A. McNEILL WHISTLER