The Journal begins with Patricia de Montfort, who teaches art history at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Research Curator for the Whistler Collection at the Hunterian. In Whistler’s Late Portraits of Ethel Birnie in the Hunterian Collection, it is interesting to have contemporary photographs of the sitter to compare with Whistler’s paintings of his sister-in-law, and the documentation of the artist’s dissatisfaction with his work and obsessive repainting. In the
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DANIEL E. SUTHERLAND: LETTERS FROM AMERICA Looking ahead to next summer’s highly anticipated Whistler exhibition at Tate Britain, I have been wondering how the Society might contribute to this marvellous occasion. One idea that occurs to me is a recreation of the Whistler v. Ruskin court battle. It would not be the first time this pivotal moment in the Master’s life has been given dramatic treatment. The Whistler-Ruskin confrontation, long recognized as a seminal momen
