OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 171, 20 July 1903, Page 5

OBITUARY.

J. M'NEILL WHISTLER

LOXDOX, July 18

Mr James Abbott McNeil! Whistler, the Avell-known painter and etcher, is dead, in his 00th year.

[This extraordinarily original artist and no Ics.s original man was an. American by hirtli, and was the son of the <-iij.'tneer who built the Moscow and SL Petersburg: Railway. After studying in Paris l>p came to London, sin<l exhibited his "Two Et'liincs from Nature" ;ithl his "At tho Pinno." His host known pk-hiro is "The Avtisi's Mother —an Arrangement in Black and Gray," exhibited in the Roynl Academy hi 1872,iiwnrdpd a cold medal In th" Snlon of 18R4. and purehasoil for the Lnxemlwnrs Gnilnrv iti isoi Kvfi-y lover of Thomas Cnrlyle is familiar with his roraarkahle portrait of (hat pronhPt. Rut his ptchin?s have been perhaps his greatest nehierements. Rnskin madf a treuieiidons onslancht i-ti Whiatlfr's worlv in the Orosvenor O.ilWr. and this i-nsTilted the next year HB7S) 'n an action for lihPl in whifli Whistler was awarded one fflrthinr damapes. In "The Art of Ma'dnp KnVmios" the nrtist hnfl thf Inst WO rcl—and a bitter one at that. Whtsrtev's art was a strivlnsr nffer toehiicnl perfection rathpr then an attempt to make n human' nppenl. Btit the world-w*de interest In his work shows that it has hesen at least fasctnntlntr. whether or not posterity will call it ' T ' , o;'i-.i <im .