So how does one painting end up with two names? When Whistler submitted the painting to the th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art in London, , he named it Arrangement in Grey and Black emphasising the abstract features of the work. However, this was radical for the time, and many people couldn't see past the portrait of his mother.
Reluctantly, he added the explanatory subtitle, Portrait of the Painter's mother. Since then, many people have known it simply as Whistler's Mother. When in the girl-mad Whistler had an illegitimate son by a local chambermaid, the news was kept from Anna, who sailed on oblivious, offering prayers and tracts to anyone she thought looked spiritually peaky.
While Sutherland and Toutziari are meticulous in rendering the busy life of Anna Whistler — she crossed the Atlantic 11 times as she followed her peripatetic husband and sons around the world — they remain uninterested in teasing out the emotional resonances of these constant dislocations. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement. Read more. This website is best viewed using the current versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge. Whistlers Mother Explore.
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