This exhibition — "The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler" — is about the artist's relationship with a much younger woman. He painted her 10 years before his mother.

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 .

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 ...

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.

James McNeill Whistler, “An Orange Note: Sweet Shop,” 1883 or 1884. (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Gift of Charles Lang Freer) James McNeill Whistler ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s career-defining painting of his mother, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871)—widely known as “Whistler’s Mother”—will return to Philadelphia this ...

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 ...

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), born in Lowell, Massachusetts, was an American artist known for his innovative approach to portraiture and landscape painting.

One Fine Show: James McNeill Whistler at the National Museum of Asian Art "Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change” captures the social and economic changes happening in 19th-century European cities.