Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake

by Daniel E. Sutherland Paperback 510 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 3/16 107 color + b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300232639 A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America’s artists This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker. The Whistler revealed in these beautifully illustrated pages is an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing.