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James McNeill Whistler · 1871

Whistler's Mother

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Whistler's tonalist portrait — his mother in profile, severely composed in greys and blacks. Originally titled "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1." An American icon.

Up to 24 × 21 in · landscape

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Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

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Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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The story of Whistler's Mother

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, best known under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother or Portrait of Artist's Mother, is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871. The subject of the painting is Whistler's mother, Anna McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches, displayed in a frame of Whistler's own design. It is held by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, having been bought by the French state in 1891. It is one of the most famous works by an American artist outside the United States. It has been variously described as an American icon and a Victorian Mona Lisa.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

James McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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