THE ART OF WHISTLER.
' The third of the popular lectures at Jellicoe Hall in aid of the' fund for the Canterbury College Memorial Window will be given to-night at 8 o'clock, when Professor Shelley will * lecture upon the fascinating art and the barbed wit of the great painter, ?. 51. Whistler. The Master, as he liked to be called, was referred to by Ruskin as a "ooxoomb flinging pots of paint in the face of the publio," and is now regarded by many as the greatest artist of his age. Within ten years of his death as many as twenty books" were published about him. The lecture this evening will be fully illustrated by slides of his pictures and etching?.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18127, 17 July 1924, Page 7
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