Which artist decided to sue the art critic John Ruskin for libel when Ruskin referred to Nocturne in Black and Fold: The Falling Rocket as “cockney impudence”?

a. Claude Monet
b. Vincent van Gogh
c. J.A.M. Whistler
d. Mary Cassatt
e. Edgar Degas

c. J.A.M. Whistler

a. Incorrect. Monet did not sue Ruskin.
b. Incorrect. Van Gogh did not sue Ruskin.
c. Correct. J.A.M. Whistler sued Ruskin for libel.
d. Incorrect. Cassatt did not sue Ruskin.
e. Incorrect. Degas did not sue Ruskin.