Whistler's Mother
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She feels the same way about seeing "Whistler's Mother" in Los Angeles, in particular about seeing it alone on the wall.
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 Speed, Nell
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