The Print-Collector's Quarterly (Volume 3 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... yellow, green, brown, gray, and black. There are three figure-studies, of which the most charming is Draped Figure Reclining (156), a girl half recumbent on a couch upon which is a blue and white pot. Six printings are used, gray, green, pink, yellow, blue, and purple. There is a proof of this subject which is as exquisite in color as any pastel. His treatment of them is quite the same as that he used in pastel-drawing; there is an outline in gray and the color is put on in definite strokes with little or no attempt at blending. Some impressions are altogether delightful, but they do not seem to have got beyond the state of the first experimental proofs, and consequently no two are alike. It is a great pity, because if Whistler had gone on with his color-prints, he would have found no limits to his aspirations, and he would have made greater triumphs out of the despised art of lithography. THE DIVISION OF PRINTS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS By ARTHUR JEFFREY PARSONS Chief uf Division of Prints LTHOUGH as an institution and as a collection the Library of Congress is over a century old (having been founded in 1800 ). the new building, completed in 1897, opened out for it a new career of usefulness, and imposed upon it corresponding new obligations. By its size, its efficiency, and its impressiveness architecturally, the building has constituted an invitation to gifts, bequests, and loans of material, which have enriched not merely the collections of printed books, but also and notably those of manuscripts and of prints. As regards the prints, a visitor is at once impressed by the amplitude and charm of the spaces for exhibit. These are chiefly on the second floor, in long galleries that may be traversed at will without interference with the absorption of reader...