The Tile Club

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2000 by Ronald G. Pisano

(27.) For Mary Anderson's relationship with the artists and writers at Broadway see Kenin, Return to Albion, pp. 122-125.

(28.) Edward Strahan [Earl Shinn] and F. Hopkinson Smith, A Book of the Tile Club (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1887).

(29.) For a discussion of The Pleiades see Natalie Spasskey et al., American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985), pp. 509-510.

(30.) According to Strahan and Smith, "News from Du Maurier and Burne-Jones, and Alma Taderna and Sargent, were demanded and given with such graphic painter's minuteness that the listeners could fairly scent the varnish in the ateliers of those distant craftsment" (A Book of the tile Club, p. 28).

(31.) Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1955), p. 128.