Whistler with the White Lock

Thomas Robert Way British
 After James McNeill Whistler American
 Sitter James McNeill Whistler American

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Way worked with Whistler as a lithographic printer (and also published an important catalogue raisonné of Whistler's lithographs). This print resembles several of Whistler's self-portraits but, unlike those works,emphasizes a distinctive white lock of hair. This puzzled contemporaries who compared it to a feather resting atop the artist's head. It now seems likely that the feature was caused by Waardenburg Syndrome.

Whistler with the White Lock, Thomas Robert Way (British, London 1861–1913 London), Lithograph

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