2 Whistler books WHISTLER THE FRIEND - Pennell 1st Ed WORLD OF WHISTLER Gregory

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We are offering two books on James McNeill Whistler:WHISTLER THE FRIEND by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1930, 183 pages. FIRST EDITION cloth hardcover with no dust jacket shows minimal wear and pages clean and unmarked.The World of James McNeill Whistler by Horace Gregory, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1959, 255 pages. Cloth hardcover with no dust jacket shows minimal wear other than some fading at top of front cover and spine. Pages are clean and unmarked.James McNeill Whistler participated in the artistic ferment of Paris and London in the late nineteenth century, crafted a distinctive style from diverse sources, and arrived at a version of Post-Impressionism in the mid-1860s, a time when most of his contemporaries in the avant-garde were still exploring Realism and Impressionism. - Metropolitan Museum of Art