Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from In Memoriam, James McNeill Whistler: London, February 20th, 1905
We are met to celebrate the memory of a very great man, and to do honour to the work in which he has perpetuated that memory. Mr. Whistler was a man good at many things he was a wit, and a warrior, and the most versatile of craftsmen. But he was more than this; and it is as a creator and servant of beauty that he claims our remembrance to-night. Beauty, and beauty only, he said, was the justification and aim and end of a work of art. Surely, in the history of the world, there has seldom been such a collection of the works of one man which was per vaded and inspired and possessed by the desire of beauty as the wonderful collection now to be exhibited in the New Gallery is pervaded and inspired and possessed. Every touch and every line in those canvases and prints bears its part in the unceasing quest and shares in the triumph of the capture. The labour is over; and we are permitted to take our pleasure, every man according to his capacity, in the rich reward.
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