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Show WHISTLER HAD NO REPLY. Singular Remarks Made by Two .Brother , Artists to the Noted Painter. Whistler, the American artist who resides re-sides in London, says very bitter things occasionally, oc-casionally, but when he gets a reply in kind he has nothing to say. This seems to indicate indi-cate that his smart things are prepared beforehand, be-forehand, and the Detroit Free Prcs relates two stories illustrating the point. Whistler once attended a dinner of artists and was very unsparing in his criticisms of them. He does not believe in spoiling a joke by sparing a friend. He said that more than three-quarters of the painters of the present day should, in the interests of art, have been strangled at birth. "Do you believe that?" asked ono artist across the table to another. "I'm sure I don't know," was the reply. "I am lost in admiration at Whistler's self-sacrificing self-sacrificing devotion to art." To this remark the great painter had no reply ready. Frank Dicksee, the painter of "The Har-mon3"which Har-mon3"which is nowpossessed by the nation is a quiet, dark haired man who evidently believes in harmony but who can say a sharp thing if the occasion requires it. Dicksee was standing once looking at a painting by Fred Walker, when Whistler happened along. "Poor Fred Walker," said the latter sneer-ingly. sneer-ingly. "What a daub!" Dicksee evidently did not agree with Whistler, but all he ventured to say was that Walker was popular. "Popular!" cried Whistler; "much the people know about art! When the public come to my studio I show them the backs of mv canvases." "And do you tell them V" asked Dicksee quietly. Once more the great painter had no reply ready. . --. . |