It need hardly be said that his palette is free from all blacks, browns, ochres, or earth-colours generally, and that his strongest “effects” are gained by the juxtaposition of pure tints in harmonious contrast. His favourite colour-scheme seems to be the composition of subtle arrangements in yellow and blue, or pink and green. He contributes regularly to the Salon, yearly producing from two to four canvases of the size mentioned, and in these days of a limited market and unlimited talent, he invariably finds purchasers. So fortunate has he been that his numerous friends have but one fear for his future, that his enormous success may hasten a tendency to stereotype his compositions. Didier-Pouget is doubtless aware of this danger, and will probably follow his present aims in a manner which will not disfigure or flaw a most brilliant career. [Illustration] [Illustration: THE VALLEY OF THE CREUSE · DIDIER POUGET ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF HIS MOTHER · J. A. McN. WHISTLER ] CHAPTER XI · AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS: WHISTLER, HARRISON, HASSAM “THROUGH HIS BRAIN, AS THROUGH THE LAST ALEMBIC, IS DISTILLED THE REFINED ESSENCE OF THAT THOUGHT WHICH BEGAN WITH THE GODS, AND WHICH THEY LEFT HIM TO CARRY OUT” _WHISTLER’S TEN O’CLOCK_ MR. WHISTLER’S personality was one of the most striking in the art world of the last forty years, and his death was an irreparable loss. That he will rank as one of the greatest masters of the nineteenth century there can be no doubt. As an Impressionist with a strong individuality his work requires attention in this volume.