James Whistler & Norman ShawWhile leaving a friend's party one evening, James Whistler, having greatly over-indulged himself, promptly fell down a flight of stairs.
As other guests rushed to his aid, the artist indignantly demanded the name of the host's architect. "Norman Shaw," someone replied.
"I might have known it!" Whistler exclaimed. "The damned teetotaler!"
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) American painter [noted for such paintings as (the co-called) Whistler's Mother - and for a book entitled The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890)]More James Whistler anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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