Identifier: jamesmcnei00penn (find matches)
Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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curtains and velarium,by Mr. Roussel in the Pall MalVs Pictures of 1887. Whistlers earlyNocturne in Blue and Gold, Valparaiso Bay ; Nocturne in Black and Gold,The Gardens (Cremorne) ; Harmony in Grey, Chelsea in Ice, were hung,and with them his latest, Arrangement in Violet and Pink, Portrait ofMrs. Walter Sickert. Most of the members regarded the Presidents innovations as aninterference with their rights. He might pay their debts, that was onething ; it was another to make their gallery beautiful by chucking theirpictures. Their resentment increased on the occasion of a visit fromthe Prince of Wales. Whistler stayed late the day before to finish thedecoration. When the members came, doors and dadoes were paintedyellow. Whistler, with whom great fault was found, refused to haveanything further to do with the decorations, though they were unfinished.There was fright carried that evening to a smoking-concert at theHogarth Club, where everybody was talking of the arrangement in260 (1887
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The British Artists yellow. He was telegraphed for. So discreet of you all at theHogarth was his answer, and he did not appear until it was timeto meet the Prince, though in the meanwhile members tried to tonedown the yellow. Whistler told us : I went downstairs to meet the Prince. As we were walking up,I a little in front with the Princess, the Prince, who always liked to bewell informed in these matters, asked what the Society was—Was itan old institution ? What was its history ? Sir, it has none, itshistory dates from to-day ! I said. But the old members say that when the Prince went downstairswith one of them his remark was : Who is that funny little man wehave been talking to ? The dissatisfaction was brought before a meeting, when a propositionwas made and passed that the experiment of hanging pictures in anisolated manner be discontinued, and that, in future, enough worksbe accepted to cover the vacant space above and below the line—in fact,that the gallery be hung as befor

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