The Little
Note in Yellow
and Gold
James Abbott
McNeill
Whistler
American
painter (1834-1903)
1886
Pastel
Isabella
Stewart Gardner
Museum
Jpg: Pragmatic
Romanticist
From: The
Pragmatic Romanticist
Date:
6/19/00
I'm enjoying your
parallel references
to Whistler and JSS. In a book about Isabella Stewart Gardner that I'm
reading numerous concurrent references to both are made. It's amusing
that
when Gardner first met JSS in  England
in 1886 - with the intent I believe of getting a portrait done - he was
unable to comply immediately and she ended up in Paris getting a lovely
pastel done by Whistler instead. I've seen it in the Veronese Room in
the
third floor of the Gardner Museum aligned on the same wall with three
other
small Whistlers. It's name is "The Little Note in Yellow and Gold".
"This
small drawing conveys little more then the vivacity and alertness of
its
subject, but it is a finely graduated study of yellows, golds, and
whites".
Again, you can see that to Whistler, colour and form were far more
important
then the subject.
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