21.—BLUE AND SILVER.
Blue Wave—Biarritz.
Lent by Gerald Potter, Esq.
"Mr. Whistler is possessed of much audacity and eccentricity, and these are useful qualities in an artist who desires to be talked about. When he comes out into the open, and deals with daylight, we find these studies to be only the first washes of pictures. He leaves off where other artists begin. He shirks all the difficulties ahead, and asks the spectator to complete the picture himself."—Daily Telegraph.
"The absence, seemingly, of any power, such as the great marine painters had, of drawing forms of water, whether in a broad and wind-swept tidal river or on the high seas...."
F. Wedmore,
"Nineteenth Century."
22.—ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND BROWN.
Miss Rosa Corder.
Lent by Graham Robertson, Esq.