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James McNeill Whistler A Review by Mark Harden James McNeill Whistler, the painter of that most American of works--the very icon of American motherhood-- Arrangement in Grey and Black (better known, of course, as Whistler's Mother ), ironically left the United States at the age of twenty-one, never to return. Whistler lived as an expatriate, alternating between London and Paris depending on the ...