Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — An Offensive Cravat. [ARTICLE]

An Offensive Cravat.

A good story of Whistler and hi»-pe-culiarities is told in the Free Lance. A gentleman went to Whistler with a letter of introduction and sent up his card with the letter. The servant presently brought down the card with a note in pencil on it—“ Who is the greatest painter?” The visitor promptly wrote “Whistler” and was immediately shown upstairs. An amusing scene followed, arising out of the fact that the visitor was wearing a red necktie. Whistler declared it interfered with the color scheme of his room and "put him off” a picture he was painting in quite a different “key.” Finally he obliged him to take off the offending cravat before be would condescend to exchange another word with him.