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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1995
Page
13
A famous Whistler work titled Whistler's Mother travels from Paris to the National Gallery for a three month May start. The portrait, by James McNeill Whistler, has grown from mixed reviews to a beloved symbol of motherhood attracting thousands to the Louvre and Paris exhibitions.
Anna Whistler born Wilmington 1804 married at 27 and devout. She prayed for son James to succeed as an artist as his London portrait was made. Painted in 1871 when she was 67, she sat after tiring. Whistler, a then struggling artist, sold the work for about 800 dollars. she did not live to see his later fame.
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