cover image Whistler

Whistler

Stanley Weintraub. Plume Books, $12.95 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-525-48432-5

``New material, superb scholarship, human and artistic insights will probably establish Weintraub's elegant biography of James McNeill Whistler as definitive,'' said PW , praising this treatment of the artist who emerges here as a difficult person and extraordinary painter. Photos. (Nov . )