Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1913 — WITH WHISTLER AT WORK [ARTICLE]

WITH WHISTLER AT WORK

Great Artist Had His Own Method of Producing Masterpieces Which the World Prizes. The studio was surprisingly differs eat from the room he previously used In Lindsay row, and entirely unlike the studios usualiy occupied by other artists. I remember a long,, not very lofty room, very light, with windows along one side; his canvas beside his model at one end, end at the other.

near the table which he used as a palette, an old Georgian looking glass, so arranged that he could see his canvas and model reflected In IL Those who use such a mirror (as he did constantly) will know that it Is most jnerclless of critics. 1 marveled then A? his extraodrinary activity, as he darted backward and forward to look at both painting and model from his point of view at the extreme end of the long studio. He always used brushes of large size, with very long handles, three feet in length, and held

them from the end with his arms stretched to their full extent Each touch was laid on with great firmness, and his physical strength enabled him to dp without the assistance of a mahlstick, while the distance at which he stood from the canvas allowed him to have the whole of a large picture in sight and so judge the correct drawing of each touch.—Way's “Memories of Whistler.”