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Officially titled 'Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1,' Whistler insisted the painting was about formal harmony, not sentiment — yet it became an enduring icon of motherhood. Its severe, balanced composition reflects his art-for-art's-sake creed. It is one of the few major American works held in France.
Whistler's Mother
- Date1871
- MovementRealism
- WhereMusée d'Orsay, Paris
- RegionFrance