Whistler's Mother

American  

noun

1. (formal name,Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother ) a painting (1871) by James McNeill Whistler.

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Whistler's Mother Cultural  

1. The popular title of a painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black Number 1, by James Whistler, which depicts his mother in profile, dressed in black, and seated on a straight chair.

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Whistler's Mother

You might know the painting by its more famous unofficial name: "Whistler's Mother."

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2015

"Whistler's Mother," for example, is lighted by three quartz halogen bulbs that don't exceed an intensity of 200 lux and possess UV filters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2015

If Pater's book The Renaissance is the literary manifesto of the aesthetic movement, its visual masterpiece is Whistler's 1871 painting Arrangement in Grey and Black, No 1 – otherwise known as Whistler's Mother.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011

The art in the house occupied by the felines in "Three Little Kittens,"meanwhile, includes a portrait of "Puss in Boots" as well as a painting showing "Whistler's Mother" as a cat.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2011

It has some of the qualities of Whistler's Mother.

From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed

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