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03/02/07

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Categories: Arts And Culture

James Whistler - Mama's Boy

At The Piano, 1858-59, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

James Whistler was an American born painter. One day he was cornered by a very snobby woman from Boston. She asked the artist, "Where were you born?" Whistler replied that he had been born in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The lady apparently made a face upon hearing this, and asked, "Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like that?"

Without missing a beat, the rather witty Whistler said, "I wished to be near my mother."

And here she is...Whistler's Mother...

Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, 1871, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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