When James Whistler was larking about town with a sketch pad, drawing caricatures, sketching a fire in the rectory roof, skating and coasting with friends, where did the Whistlers live in Pomfret, Conn.?
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Revealing the woman behind ‘Whistler’s Mother’
‘Whistler’s Mother’ has become one of the most recognized paintings ever made. But few people know the woman in it. Looking at the elderly figure in her black dress, how many people see a young woman helping her doctor father in his lab in New York — or a young mother holding her dying 2-year-old son on a ship to Russia?
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James McNeill Whistler and his mother reunite in the Berkshires
Whistler’s Mother has come to visit. Rembrandt-like, her face shines clear against a dark and grey background, said Jay A. Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute.
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