Best Selling Books by James McNeill

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 12 June - 12 September 2004, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 12 October 2004 - 17 January 2005, and Tate Britain, London, 10 February - 15 May 2005.

Seventeen folktales from around the world, each representative of its country''s folk literature.

This book brings together for the first time almost seventy of Whistler''s most beautiful, unusual, and important pastels, drawn from collections world-wide. Many of them have never been reproduced before and are too fragile for exhibition.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Catalogue raisonné.

Best known as a painter and printmaker, James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) was also an influential

"This is the sage of James Abbott McNeill Whistler''s painting of Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac"--Page 9. Painting held by the Frick Collection.