Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler's Mother), 1871

James McNeill Whistler

Oil on canvas · 144.3 x 163 cm

A study in composition and restraint that became an accidental American icon.

Whistler insisted his severe profile of his mother was really an 'arrangement in grey and black' — an exercise in tone and balance, not sentiment. Yet it became an enduring emblem of motherhood. Spare, geometric and elegant, it is quietly radical.

Musée d'Orsay

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