Show “A PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER”— WHISTLER James Abbott On the 7th of July the world lost one of its greatest and most interesting personalities a man who for forty-fiv- e years had held a position of extraordinary prominence and whose work has had a tremendous influence upon the art of his time The remarkable and erratic genius the strange and surprising individuality of the man gained for 1 McNeill WhisNer him from the start a far greater amount of attention than is usually given to an artist who dares to hew out for himself an independent and original path Whistler was born in Lowell Mass in 1834 His father Major George W Whistler was a distinguished United States army officer and civil engineer and one of the founders of Lowell |