An early painting by 19th century American artist James McNeill Whistler is the focus of an ... Hiffernan ran his studio, kept track of the books, even raised a son Whistler had with another ...

One of the world's most famous mothers traveled from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to the Philadelphia Museum of Art last ... of October. James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted his mother in 1871.

Attorney General John Holker asked the artist James McNeill Whistler how much time it took to complete one of his paintings. The work in question was Nocturne in Black and Gold—The Falling ...

(National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Gift of Charles Lang Freer) James McNeill Whistler painted his mother in profile. Everyone knows that: The painting may ...

Upon his return, Leyland was infuriated by Whistler’s audacious revisions. What’s more, the artist charged him with a fee of 2,000 guineas for the unauthorized work. The artist and patron ...

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler ... Gift of Cecilia Drinker Saltonstall Whistler’s painting depicts the American-born artist’s mother, Anna Mathilda, at his studio in London’s Chelsea ...

Credit: James McNeill Whistler / National Museum of Asian Art Some of the most defensible parts of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time involve his epistemological descriptions of encounters ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler's famous 1871 oil on canvas was actually conceived as "an experiment in color." It's called Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother.