When the painting, more commonly known as "Whistler's Mother," debuted at the 104th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1872, most of the criticism surrounding it focused on just that.

Whistler’s mother, on the other hand, is imprinted on your psyche and ensconced at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, among the most famous paintings in American ...

Though lukewarmly received by the Royal Academy, then the prevailing art authority, Whistler’s portrait of his visiting mother, “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1” (1871), was a ...