Mr. Whistler's gallery: the art of displaying art

(27) Godwin, "To Art Students," p. 13. That the installation stayed up at least until the late fall of 1884 is suggested by a letter Whistler wrote to William Booth Pearsall in November or December 1884 (box C, folder 8, Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection).

Mr. Whistler's work this year is unusually varied in its apparent themes. All sorts of objects are pressed into the service of his brush--Southend pier [Pl. V], the Cornish coast, a young woman dressed in a parasol and a red headgear, a grisette reading a French novel, a fog in Piccadilly [Pl. VI], a shop in Chelsen. (15)

KENNETH JOHN MYERS is the associate curator of American art at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.

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