| Show warA A PORTRAIT The file nt nr One Who faw lb Ih lot on Can a The impression produced on In n a com competent competent mind b by n a pl picture ture b by Whistler can no more be reproduced by verbal erbal speech than CAn symphony b by Beeth oven It if It could bl be why should Beeth Beethoven Beethoven oven trouble himself elC to compose or Whistler to paint Whistler looks out upon the world discerns In It what that be Ion to him what ho he loves draws tiit t Into the alembic of oC 11 We soul and presently produces It ns as own proper utterance through his chosen medium of oC what hat he feels and of oC his hili wisdom which is III the a application to life ot of his knowledge and Intelli Intelligence gence Whistlers art t be benullo because cause nullo It Is the faithful result ot of this twin pro process ot of assimilation and reo re reproduction production which can be nuke alike In no noto two to human bet ors any more than the tones or of their voices can be or the look lookIn lookin In their ec eyes h lc Ot Of Whistlers methods Julian flaw Thorne has this to sn say sayI t I once had nn an exhilarating experience ot of seeing Whistler paint a portrait The subject was a very ery beautiful worn orn nn ot of n t type pe beautiful she was ns as any fairy Princess In n a rail fairy tale In face figure and bearing and almost nn an artist Jut but Whistler one would sa say would have hae been so captivated and preoccupied with this beauty and the attempt to copy It that ho would have hao found small leisure to ask him self what hat It all for tor art Whistler however was In no such cst cat category egory egor to him the beauty ot of the woman W was S merely an Incident In the general scheme he was working out In the case influence its every part or of the design but never for tor a moment tempted you ou to forget time the hIgher claims of oC art artas artas as the tho woman herself herselt did Hero was n a miracle wrought out before beCore m my eyes for wh which eh I ros quito unable to ne ac account count I saw Whistler doing It yet et I Idid Idid did not see It done dOllo un any more than I could see flee the ot of the flower The picture was beautiful In spite ot of the woman It was ns harmonious It had proportion just as much as It had tone tono and a l scheme ot of color I perceived thAt although on one might get tired after aCter a awhile while of oC the woman womans beauty It being I individual and or finIte one would old continually become more and more delighted and educated b by the tho beauty which the tho picture hall had because It was glorified with that touch of oC infinity which art only bestows Here the sitter was on the canvass a color colorable able likeness of oC her In truth here were the tho tart face form fonn and accessories but what had become ot of Mrs Mortimer UC of that the ladys name She was wall there and yet It not there there because the tho chance e observer would have said because the connoisseur would have hae added a r had he been boen a an arrangement In white while and I gold goldor OId OIdor or A harmony In Dink and silver It that were It and would never neer ha have or of asking who the sitter was wasand and requesting an Introduction the was WaB Introduced to the tho soul ot of her hor b by bythe till the picture itself and was abundantly content with that She faded us as Em rr Orson on might hn have put it In p the J light t I of her sublime beauty or rather 1 bloomed n again and Immor 1 tai |
