Article: Art revolutionary Whistler was about much more than mom.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Article: 'Whistler's Mother' Comes to Detroit
AP Online;  March 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... better known as "Whistler's Mother," has ... Musee d'Orsay a rare Whistler of its own _ "Nocturne ... Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" _ in a swap of sorts ... willing to loan "The Falling Rocket" for an exhibition ... could say that we had `Whistler's Mother' coming ...

Article: 'Whistler's Mother' painting to show in Detroit
Charleston Daily Mail;  March 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... better known as "Whistler's Mother," has ... Musee d'Orsay a rare Whistler of its own - "Nocturne ... Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" - in a swap of sorts ... willing to loan "The Falling Rocket" for an exhibition ... could say that we had 'Whistler's Mother' coming ...

Article: Detroit museum enjoys rare opportunity to showcase ...
AP Worldstream;  March 11, 2004 ;     653 words ... ... offering the Musee d'Orsay a rare Whistler of its own _ "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" _ in a swap of sorts. The Art ... entitled "American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers," focuses on ...

Article: Whistler's legacy.
The Magazine Antiques;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... pieces of the show are two of Whistler's most famous works: Arrangement ... 1871, (commonly known as Whistler's Mother), which rarely ... Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (illustrated below), which ... the show who investigated Whistler's art and aesthetic approach ...

Article: The Venetian Gambit; Freer, Corcoran Trace Whistler's ...
The Washington Post;  February 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Nocturnes" of the Thames, which Whistler painted in London in the early ... It was Ruskin's review of Whistler's "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" -- a nearly abstract nighttime ... over water -- that caused Whistler t

Article: A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin.
Art in America;  January 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... paintings by James McNeill Whistler were on display. He found ... Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket - that he wrote to the journal ... Clavigera, complaining that Whistler was a "coxcomb" with the ... These were strong words, and Whistler, eager for cash and publicity ...

Article: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... Settling in London in 1859, Whistler became known as an etcher ... of art for art's sake, Whistler resorted to elaborate exhibits ... lawsuit. In connection with his Falling Rocket: Nocturne in Black and Gold ... Ruskin in 1878 for writing that Whistler asked "two hundred guineas ...