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 .

Marbles by James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886-1888 Freer Collection, gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1903.31 For all their opacity, Whistler’s street scenes are alive, peopled with crowds at a bazaar ...

Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's "founding mothers," pays a visit to a painting of another famous mother at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil on canvas.

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 ...

The Peacock room, 1877, remodelled and painted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), United States of America, 19th century. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Freer And Sackler Gallery.

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 ...

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.

Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's "founding mothers," pays a visit to a painting of another famous mother at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil on canvas.