One of the most iconic paintings in American art is on view through September 27 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. James McNeill Whistler’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother)” is a pensive image of the sitter in strict profile.
The museum reports, “It is considered by many to be the most important American painting not on American soil. Better known as Whistler’s Mother, the painting has been owned by the French state since 1891 and is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. This summer the Clark Art Institute presents the painting as the centerpiece of an exhibition featuring a variety of Whistler’s prints and drawings, Japanese woodblock prints that inspired the artist, and ephemera that explore the image’s role in popular culture.”
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