Author : Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300203462
A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.