symphony white symphony white painting work shows women dressed white sitting resting floor model artist mistress calling painting symphony white intended emphasise artistic philosophy corresponding arts inspired poet presence fan floor shows influence popular artistic trend european art time greatly influenced colleague friend works considerable similarities started painting ready exhibit publicly went display colleagues impressed painting critics fully understood connection painting title review particular questioned presence colours addition white criticism prompted respond scathing sarcastic letter years later student criticized painting low water mark old manner birth new background born united_states son railway engineer father relocated family saint_petersburg russia james received training painting stay england returned america attend west point way europe determined painting settled paris moved london spend remainder life met members profound influence london met model lover model paintings symphony white symphony white supposedly strong influence brother law refused dinner invitation winter dominant presence household january mother anna later depicted painting arrangement grey black arrived stay son london result apartment visited model presence displeased mother relationship women strained creation reception started symphony white early july paintings model jones wife actor friend second model painting middle august complete sketch ready continued work painting september kept reworking considered finished painted final date replaced mark changes undergone march wrote seeing painting studio mentioned previously called little white girls went display work greatly admired colleagues including painting served inspiration portrait ballet critics confused title writing june remarked symphony white iii varieties precisely symphony white lady yellowish dress brown hair bit blue ribbon red fan flowers green leaves girl white white girl reddish hair course flesh colour response critics wrote letter editor newspaper print later reprinted book gentle art making enemies pleasing profound inevitably find place print wise person expect white hair faces consequence believe symphony contains note shall continued repetition fool painting originally bought wealthy art collector later commissioned paint portrait wife currently ownership birmingham england composition interpretation symphony white shows head rested hand jones seated floor leaning fan floor plant bearing white flowers right fan oriental element expression artistic trend known prevalent european art time greatly influenced friend colleague painting bears close moore roughly contemporary painting musician time working closely hard exactly influenced painter student later described painting terms december years death wrote review symphony white bad picture badly composed badly drawn badly painted low water mark old manner birth new expressed paint direction hard edges painters understand depth technical confessed description means longer painted intended painting old fashioned expression new innovative naming symphony white highlighted emphasis composition subject matter use musical title expression theory corresponding arts idea developed french poet tendencies dominant art time earlier paintings symphony white symphony white originally titled white girl little white girl respectively later renamed artist originally intended work little white girls development artistic philosophy change mind time exhibition called musical title
Symphony in White, No. 3