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Whistler and His Mother

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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...
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PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.114-143
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00191.004