International studio (40.1910)

Whistler Loan Exhibition

T

HE WHISTLER LOAN EXHIBI-
TION AT THE METROPOLITAN
MUSEUM

Throughout the month of May a
loan exhibition of paintings and pastels by James
McNeill Whistler remains on view in the Metro-
politan Museum. This exhibition should not be
neglected. With the exception of the exhibition
in Boston in 1904, brought together by the Copley
Society, no such collection has been seen in this
country. The Boston exhibition included the
artist's etchings, which are omitted in the present
show, and bulked larger in quantity. At the Metro-
politan the paintings and group of small pastels
have been hung without an effect of crowding and

Lent by Herbert L. Pratt

the little blue bonnet by whistler

blue and coral

are seen to advantage. The walls have been covered
with a light mesh to give a neutral background.
From the Freer collection and lent by the National
Gallery of Art are a number of important works,
including three Nocturnes, the Annabel Lee and
the portrait of Mr. Leyland. Frank J. Hecker
lends The Music Room; John G. Johnson The
Lange Leizen; Richard A. Canfield lends a group
of pastels, the Comte Robert; Alfred Atmore Pope,
John H. Whittemore, Mrs. Samuel Untermyer,
Howard Mansfield, Herbert L. Pratt and H. H.
Benedict also contribute generously from their
Whistler possessions. From London owners come
Arthur Studd's Symphony in White No. 11: The
Little White Girl and the artist's executrix, Rosa-
lind Bernie Philip's Grey and Silver, The Thames.
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences lends
the portrait of Florence Leyland; the Carnegie
Institute at Pittsburgh sends the Arrangement in
Black, Portrait oj Senor Pablo Sarasate; the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts sends the Master Smith oj
Lyme Regis and the Little Rose 0] Lyme Regis.
Freer Collection Lent by National Gallery Taken together the collection shows Whistler's

Annabel lee pastel by whistler work as a painter fairly and completely and leaves