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Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother
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I was surprised when . . . he said to me: Mother, I want you to stand for me. It is what I have long intended and desired to do, to take your portrait.
—Anna Whistler to her sister Kate Palmer, November 3, 18711(p40)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), American. Cover: Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother, 1871. Oil on canvas,144.3 x 162.4 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library. Figure appearing in the "Art and Images in Psychiatry" article: Whistler’s Mother, ca 1870-1873. Drypoint on paper, 25.2 x 15.3 cm. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1903.252.
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The James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) painting Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother is his most famous painting; it has become an icon and has been endlessly characterized. Whistler’s celebrity was secured in 1891, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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