| Show rt 4 ' - '1 i' q I At - ' "' ' - m - THE SALTLMCE TRIBUNE ' two - - r MAY 13 1934 SUNDAY MORNING 1 Vil HON° RED WHISTLER N THIS MOTHER'S DAY -7- Eighty Years After Famous Artist Almost Lost Job for Making First Etching the United States Government Honors Him With Stamps Inscribed "In Memory And Honor of the Mothers of America" - - i 7::7::'':':::::-::?- v' : e " I ? I-p-sa - native When these stamps purple in color and -- ' ? 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An insignificant engraver's needle But Young Mr Whistler's favorite trick an artist Anyway Whistler got by with glass' the chief draftsman glanced to lp Whistler was a consummate 'etcher----tech foe some are on all where a young man was hunched over elynarkneedi 'was changing the wording on various the birds and the map wets used for a in candidly across-- a technical chart was Woolly before he left the survey41-for the ' his rawin g deslr a viery busy young his Whistler corridors amused often wu in offices' the and artist comfamous while have Must But The Signs someone James constantly being saved Excadet hung repri thrnithat the only ' man oc-incident that over would He hours him for an sit friends mended for ground relating by filling empty spaces on the plained about the map for soon after Abbott McNeill Whistler from complete — --11 Vaptain Cherished the Etched Ohio boredom in a —drab 'government officii—Plateuvillb—sketclies—öf rveyslother draftsthat when spelled differently would ' - seems that the young draftsman saw the "Not bad Jimmy" --the captain said Deets man took the plats and retouched the vid "Captain Benham told him some $O years agov And little did he reaRussian ambassador in town one day change the entire meaning of the sign And captain Benham was a smart man ' and suggested that the ambassador be not to discard that little etched magnify- Ilse that that same needle would be re- ': his guest at dinner The invitation was ing glass which doubled Itself many sponalble for the beginning of his career ' out '' alue-during – the-- following ' ' ioccewphteiectiewrhseresluopoanthoth:thtwr000strtaetd ' surpassed : se an the years ''i:::::::-: - - -In Oda country y corndr of E and Ilswelfth streets On the Many was the time though that :'''''' '' Whistler stopped by the grocery '' '!!this year' the world of art is cele- thin Benham lost his temper with Jimmy " c"::-"(::71- N) :':'':::::::':' :"'::'::i::::-store and filled bis 'distinguished friend't Whistler There is a pet story Mr Deets ::::::-:::r:::::r::‘: bolting the onebuidredth anniversary of arms With bags of groceries- - He cooked tells about the time Whisler was nearly his I Pxhibitions of :::' Whistlees birth great small ‘ for the Enbassador on-fired dinner ''''' " k'4::'"'4:s1'-:'-'':?f:'t:::':::A:1'i:ill:' :i!: ii":"::::':' stove The guest of honor t paintings sketches and etchings are be usual and Captain Jimmy was late-ai: !:::::::::!K::!'::::::!::::':1 ''''' v":'iii:i j1'!"7'1'::'-fl??''':::": was heard to exclaim that the Benham teat a tem afterward ' draltamm out Ins featured '' vI! i' t ''''''i":0t ''7::4i'"4 bad meal ever work best be had tasted to bring him to been Arriving at the ' But there is one place tar from being i4iqi:':wJ':!:":itklsi4'3q1 :t: ' ' : cooked by James 'Whistler ' tardy one's moms the draftsman found ' '' ' ' ' 4L''5'':':!':i:N'il:::4:::'''::::1::"1:::'::::::::::1::::::::'::":::!:li:il::::::4:::::::":l-!4':'1::i::'::!:::::'ila krt matte of any kind that will show ' Then there were frienda at the British :s47::::::!::::::' him asleep: Without allowing the drafts:?::::::::::::" was his name—to ex enthusiastically two Whistler etchings— who saw teit that the gay and einbassy ' '" ''' X ::':::':::M::::M::ttt:t l 1 '' :'" 11't ' omd they far from great—and recall tales ' ::':-charming Whiatlerwils always around to plain his presence Whistler invited him A: in and prepared breakfast all the while ' ''':i:' help enliven their Parties' An attache sot of Whistler the artist but of Whisd :: NIA t tnt:AIA :::::::I::::i::ii: the British embassy Labouchere who at carrying on a quick!fire conversation :: who Seri the gay and Irresponsible boy WWI one of Whistler's elosest friends dur- Noon came and neither of the draftsmen c '4:4 et— IMMO to Washhtgton when his future was had appeared so Captain Benham lag Ms stay in Washington wed to teU a story on the great painter and etcher '7: third man to bring them Ix When a Uncertain and left a brief four months ‘:' 4:: which always brought peals of laughter they ail finally arrived at 3 o'clock In pmoomos later definitely latmched on a famous front his listener& It goes that on one the afternoon a very angry Capta1n-13m- ! -' " 11ttt I t4' :'!$ ‘44 i '' I i4'''' : ' career : occasion Labouchere and Whistler were ham called a very contrite Lindenhohl ' t1 I 1 ::::::::: '41'i'')'r!o 1'V ''te 'W:::::: That place is the U'11cootst end geco 1!''''''''''rlii::::7::'::::i::::i'i::'::in:::" Invited to attend a formal morning func- aside for an explanation 1' i illeti e survey It was in that office that the "But Captain Benham Jimmy Is iso lion Whistler called for his friend at :''( 1 ::!:: lij le 'k4i :::::::::::: ? i q i i s 5':' f ::) 04 tr'!::-!::Z'--i-':-:1-H:-him and found and we lust couldn't interrupt sensitive 4 the impeccably legation ' i'‘ 1' ‘ artist found himself: Theme James Abbott ::t i ::!::::-:::::' '7' ' dressed in the correct attire for the occa his interesting conversation or fail to ' ' z''''t i'vil 44 i- s' e ::::::::::::: ': ' Whistler Is legend' N 1 4C::): eat Abe breakfast and lunch he prepared lion ::::":: ' ' '''''"t4 for us" Anecdotes al His Pranks v" "Jimmy your frock coat Is all out of ' tc' :''-7- :::titoalqtsr:1 14 LaCharles Deets gathered the reproduc- place for the affair this morning" ' After $O years the gOvernment office bouchere told Whistler ':'':?i tions of Whistler's first two etchings and t otill Is rich in anecdotes of Whistler and Jimmy laughed ''ButI have no dress put them back in the drawer He walked he declare& back to his desk and sat upon his high matt" hie pranka his gaiety Ma' affectations of '1!A:" to offer lend Before the attachacould stool dress and manner 'and bist but by no ' This year when órt lovers are him one the ingenious Jimmy bad An etching by Whistler for the U 'S coast and geodetic survey in whose servici he found Means lost his marvelous command of Attp the tails of his frock coat ing the hundredth anniversary of WhisThe litile dots above the island at its right end rebresent 'flocks of birds arm an engraver's need1e a command be himself as an artist and started taketi his friend by the flees birth West Point academy probfor the waiting carriage "Why have a artanifeated from the start pride to the tablet-dres- -The etching is the only one bearing a design which the survey ever accepted is The a can one allhave whew etching cost at erected his and to sou- there in memory couldn't liked hint 'rhey °Evrybody a pin" was his comment as shown a at! the frock Whistler's venir's the Cadet best of effect fewest training lines obtained the example perfect survey by by help it" Charles H Deets veteran carto the And the military school which disclosed his LaWrouchet erehatvid sayti" the turned with to survey g'rephic engineer at the party artistic bent And surely the Beaux first sketch shading it and etching great time and time again that the designs he For instance "Smoking absolutely on on his high itool sway from his charts Although exceedingly indifferent to - Artó will declare that his talent for etch clouds around the birds" Under present work Whistler was far from indifferteillst frig and painting budded in Pari&-joined in this office was changed to and instruments Its bid been asked made must be erued that the governdreitsmen his fellow to Mr Deets pointed to the drawer tha his were not to ment is day appraisement it thought by many spoil" plates : "Smoking absolutely onloyed in this ofabotd that period in Whifriendliness to those- - about him in his held the Whistler reproduction& "Bo from fice office Whilst in Mr the the With Whistler's that effect lióes so Captain ingenious Evelybody few by as draftsman be stles life when served office was One of the Chief reasons why 'he began here We were the first t la better than the retouched plate Benham on down was interested in this Noted for Social Chula and recognize b' be wasn't dismissed from the survey dui"- in the surver–the charts and instru really understand "Whistler wu thought to be witty and the first days be worked therkThat first plate with its "schoolboy- boy who handled an etching genius" lag bents could wait One day the Irrepressible young taradoxically amusin& and traditions of (Copyright 1034 by the North Amer' ish" sketches liSs a brief but interesting needle for the first time in his life when Although Jimmy Whistler's brief stay can Newspaper Alliance Intl) draftsman's Work teenied ttnustialir dull- social charm and gaiety tatne trOM he came into the survey and two months history worth recalling Is not within the memory of the oldest ' under his his ' name later had engraved Whistler Itching for a Dims trY4114001otowc4occo wooptxxomoomokooRkwy employe there are mom veterans of the qt"smoilttg::::n07Af1 :woPP100716"! gryitfrIRot'!t?rfyoTVAktjptV-rlrtit- t second etching—s record never excelled :'::-0:! office who have beard stories from the John Key draftsman was gathering :: '::fy'' :P' i 1 k: '' j: !' before or since old copper plates fce the junkman one :':' ::-':-- : ' ' :::::i: ': A: Ups of his former issociates While the !' :'' i:::::::'V:::::''':'!::::'"':::7:'::':&:'':::'':' ' Government typographical plans and day soon after Whistler's sudden depar-world was ringing with his praises of : i to Parts Hodis- teuorreereumwWasilington maps were made with utmost accuracy k these Charlea Deets is perhaps the most etching writing ' enthusiastic and end 11 and of line the x 23:: :4 geodetic sharpness him Whistler those in the pile and asked Captain b with 1 4 ' " Benham's permission to buy it So for survey was long recognized as the hardt something of a bobby ' the price of the copper in the plate— :::i 4 r est and most perfect School of etching in Whistler 'now did Jinuny happen ':A --:::14::--:''' : about 10 cents—Key became first owner t A draftsman beginner studied long hours ' Washington?" Mr Deets chuckled For t '' 7 —"11 of that remarkable etching) Several z la too had asked that question many to learn the tedious points of this fine years later while in Europe Mr Key : :I r"-- c( : lc sold the plate to a close friend of Whia' :' t 4 '::' rears ago when be first began work at art before any of his work actually was : n '" tier's After passing through many s 4 ' rA:i the survey "Well be came here one accepted by the survey for publicatioh ''' !! 4:::::? i'q ' :t 1!: hands Mr Freer became the owner of 4 't ' ' ' "From the besinning he wielded his ' brisk fall morning just as confident as I :' 4' '' !: e the plate which is now on exhibition ''' ' '' :':' ' needle with authority that spells an inwith other of Whistler's works in the eAything that Jefferson Davis then sec ' ''::z 4 '7': ' :'' ! '4 '11 ' Freer collection in Washington—the ! ' rotary of war would reinstate him in - nate grasp upon the very genius of art" ' ': ' f ' J which it originated West Point You set Cadet Jimmy had Edward G KennedY wrote in his "Etched itt amid that Whistler also etched lost e tilt with military discipline His Work of Whistler" "His wizardry Of 4ne a third pitte--i-l section- of the Delaware : :: was noted from the start and all of deportment had bee eet down in terms river Apparently it went the way of ' other old plates for as yet no one has of demerits and there was the matter Whistler's genius comes out in his etched to able locate been it of a difference of opinion between Cadet lines '' To a Mr McCoy known as one of ! 11 guess Jimmy Whistler was the only Whistler and one Of his professorsthe foremost etchers of the day and ' A: - Jimmy it seemed had bad the temerity— diftamanever1n1heiurvey to 'etch employed in the geodetic survey goes : — ' birds on a coast survey map arid get by - the credit for giving James Whistler to assert that silicon was gas" a took He in his first steps etching 'That boy just couldn't confine him with its Mr Deets pointed out two flocks lively interest in him soon after the self to regulations of any sort Mr of gulls flying above the point of Ana-cap-e boy's arrival in Washington and worked ' Deets warmed to his 'after island "They say that when Whiswith him at odd moments when Whistler subject "Why wasn't cutting capers in or outside the tler turned his second plate over to CapSeeretary Davis bad pointed out that be t udea kdsi isetunfboimi was not destined for a military carter taln Benham for inspection the old chief (1)Ifilr orhstitttiantgeaoteheise 4 and had Sent him over here as an appren Jitunify draftsman gave the boy one sad look" lazy? No indeed affirmed ' tics draftstnan JImmy began right away "It was a '"I've told you about those Jimmy' Mr Deets with emphasis : ' case of distraction pointing the waou3r to to Alt up mischief in his new surround he said 'Now you've ruined another gove so bgs tt was difficult to keep up the ernment topper Can't you possibly unwttIttlaseintgren°guRnhsgeoadmuch a lazy felltnowlor morale of the office with Jimmy never derstand that those birds have absotime dreaming at his On time to work and frequently failing-tdesk in reality he was probably deli- lutely tici "topographical value on this planning his great artistic career show up at all Office tccords show nhely map?' ' In truth he was interested in etching"The young draftsman looked hurt ' that he worked six and one-hadays in only so far as it Subconsciously provided ' an outlet for his great talent But draft- January and five and days 'Why 'captain surely the birds don't demap was t In February I tell you be gave Captain tract from the sketch: Aniicapa island " int a government topographical had much work and Jimmy Whistler Unbent chief draftsman many a gray look as blank as that map did couldn't !elI more tun drawing caricatures of his hah before I added the birds"' or sketching on the wall reside his desk—when The cartographic engineer ceased Mr Deets compared the Whistler no superiors bap sketch of Anscapa Island to a map of 4pened to be looking ist his direction' ing about Whistler- - the man and some ' More than once after being two or the sanke island which is being used towhat proudly began discussing Whistler be was din for work late hours three the artist 'During the few dayate day covered In the corridor of the govern- ' ' ' ' worked in the survey however he made ' ': ' : Pertans Captain Benhim 'realised ' '' ' ' ment building drawing allover- the white ' Vorld-fatOomothtira os 4150 his the first two at his approximately 131bistler's that his stubborn draftsman was bulatell Walla portrait Of well-know- n t Whistler the artist is he appeared in his twenties not long after he had been suspended from the military academy at West Point - - k :::: m:ii0i:iii:::::::::::: :1t :—:::::::::§:::::::: k 0 :: :t ::::::1":::'7YA '''':aS: 4 i 01'''' i" fv::::::::: :::i'i::::::::::::51: ::Atl:t::-4-- :dA:e:'4:tt41-:'- ::F: 04 :: - I : :::::::::4:-::i::!:-:i- 4::::::-:::::":ttz!"- ' r4"?48eU4e: !:::::1:'::: '::: iput ' t f '"::':i:i: 1 ' '':::75 - '' i Ili i :!::::e':' ' r tt ? :i' ' :::':::::1ts1:ii'0'" :i::: r tA '''''1')::c::':: - ""7:'::::?::iA""-'1::::'::::1- t : :i:::: :Z':i:: ' :':R::: i:::::ii::::: '''''- - :::i'::'“:':i:::::iki'::i::':::: '''' !:-- ' :: ' :: :'1:::1:-:1"'::- ‘::'i:ic:? t 'li' ' ' :' ' t ' - 0 : ':::is''":'?P::::i::::::''':':'::: i'1::''S 5o '7:'4:: - 5 6 A :E:f'4- ' - ':U: )' N - A - ::::? '''t I ik - h 114 ' ' - ''?''!‘ fk ' His First Two Ekhings Mr Deetz hesitated a moment then got down from his stool "I have reproductions 'of his first and second etchingso he said as he rummaged through a long drawer and spread some charts on the bare top at a drawing table There he pointed outwas the remarkable but little known first etching—the experimental plate with which! Whistler amused himself by filling in empty spaces with sketches of his own etcher and Joseph Pennell One of Whistler's few friends explain' in his book "Whistler's Life" that the sketches on the first etching obviously are remlniscetnt of the young man had seen They represent a peasant woman man in Italian hat man in Sicilian bon-I- n net mother and child French soldier - artist- ' t :::::i::'-::- :i': - ": '1:: '— ::''Ntk' t ' i):::: ---- - ' i f 'It 1:::7:::::::::'1':ii:::::i:::I'-:is::::i:tii::::a::::::- :tIi4i'l':MI:':1M0-W':Ni:::CQ:::iKi:''::::- - - '' etchings—a beginning that stirred in him a desire to seriously continue and perfect that art" Eighty years ago James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler made his first etching In Washington D C and was almost Shed for it Today the stamp machines in the United States bureau of engraving and printing are turning out thousands of stamps bearing the etehed reproduction of Whistler's famous painting of his snother—en honor seldom accorded a :'''''''' t ::-- r': " --- 4 - ' - 4":': ':i :V:''A i: ' ""'fr-'""'t-5-1:- - :::::2c4 ' ' '''' ::::::i‘t4''j I Ily FRANCES SHIFFEN Tribune Special Correspondent ' " N ::::i:i:::::::i:i:ii::::ii::iiim:::ii:i:::::::iig:::::::::!::: 's t::!:- gs — - ---7 werietWhistiervItterseidr-1-vetrae---r--wenerirrmse-at-that-tirne---------7--- - - ' -- e - IheRn - school-boyis- : h ' ! ant :!- it- - -: -- ' ver 6 i t - Cap-Wa- - : !:!9‘tti::::l:::':1::::'1 : Si 4- fr "'-- ? -' i Z::::'rri:: 4: -- two-burn- : ti 4 '0 — ::: - man-Linde-nhohl ::: ' : ' 1 :4s!- :)i:"n vii::::::4:i':s:''k ?!-1r:i!- i?:7tii§ ' --- :- :''45 'k4i ''::'se A'1111:td?f '": 1 ' 3: kt ( ti::r4 ::::: : it i ' '' : l' -- i ' ri :::' r :: ::::::: '4Ylri-'-'''''''7'''''J''':!''- ' 4 ' 'I :tstt ':::::ii::':::f:::!::::: ': honor-Pinne- s d s of little-know- 4 :7 k::4::L''"':ic: - - ' t '1-- ::: 7 F::! ::::: ::::: :i: -' t- ' rt:vixt:t::::-::::::-:::-- :J::?:ii::::::-rs- - cy ' - - ik -e P t s n ' Sis - ' ik S Ic II ' Iii:4 -- ‘ -- ''i: :' ' ' : : : ' :r il'::-- :s: s : :'-:- ‘ -- 4 ? sainr: :'t ' '' i'i:'c:: '' ' ' '' 4' 14 ‘ ' i'-- ::7777 ' - 4 rs ' - 2: : A 4 P 0 o i t 0 litr s ' A ‘? :?:::-777T'k':? 4' : ' : ' :7 : :i:-- z- st--' 3Vs':'' : — A ‘ t I t " t P : :0 ' — : ' lf three-quart- ' I - — --- - - - - - - -- - - - !' - - - - I - it ' - ' 4 - 1p '' - - - - - - - - 1 1 I |
