Whistler's mother : portrait of an extraordinary life / Daniel E. Sutherland and Georgia Toutziari.

Discover the extraordinary woman behind one of the most famous images of motherhood in Western art Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic woman. This ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sutherland, Daniel E. (Author)
Toutziari, Georgia (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Whistler, Anna Mathilda McNeill, > 1804-1881.
Mothers > United States > Biography.
Women > United States > Biography.
Mothers.
Women.
United States.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:245 pages, 32 pages of color plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A child of two worlds, 1804-31
  • Wife and mother, 1832-43
  • Russia, 1843-44
  • Impatient reformer, 1845-49
  • A widowed mother, 1849-54
  • Sojourner, 1854-60
  • The manager, 1860-67
  • The mother, 1867-72
  • Onlooker, 1872-81
  • Icon, 1881-2018.