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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

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Description: Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
For his contemporaries as for recent scholars, the primary fact about Whistler is his singularity. It may be said that he and his critics, in a strange collusion born of antipathy and adulation in equal measure, have made of Whistler himself an object of aesthetic judgement...
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Related print edition pages: pp.163-199
Description: Circulation
Late in the month of October 1871, Maggie, a model for James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), fell ill and told the artist she could not sit for the portrait he intended to make of her. The weather being too bad for him to continue working outdoors on the Thames landscapes project he had recently started, Whistler, who was then living in Chelsea with his mother, asked her to pose for...
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.114-143
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00191.004

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