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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Example Sentences

On Friday a new generation of Angelenos will lay eyes on "Whistler's Mother," but it really isn't about who has seen her, but rather all the people she has seen.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2015

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

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

But the people of Paris began to feel that Whistler, the American artist, was a great master, and the city bought the picture, "Whistler's Mother."

From The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures by Bryant, Lorinda Munson