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Artist's Mother: Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.1, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 1834-1903  Search this
Subject:
Whistler  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Musee d'Orsay Paris France
Date:
1871
Notes:
Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 16.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 267.
American Heritage, Vol. Xii, No. 6, 1961.
"Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism," New York, NY: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999, pg. 16.
Image on file.
Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 16.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pl. 45.
Sweet, Frederick A., "Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt,"Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954., p. 91.
Antiques (June 1995): pg. 869.
"Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism," New York, NY: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999, pg. 16.
Paris Salon of 1883, Paris, 1883.
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Summary:
Full-length portrait of the artist's mother seated in profile. She wears a black dress with white lace cuffs, collar, and hat. A picture hangs on the wall at center.
Topic:
Portrait female--Full length  Search this
Architecture interior  Search this
Object--Art Object  Search this
Control number:
IAP 81880569
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_219467