Word: whistlerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book-lined study sat the Prime Minister. There was a large bouquet of red roses in front of him. Two feet away, where Mr. King could see it with the slightest turn of his head, hung a portrait of the Prime Minister's mother in a pose resembling Whistler's mother. The picture was illuminated from below by a table lamp...
...first-rate group of 19th-and 20th-century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...
...Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts jurymen ponderously examined a group of paintings secretly padded with two genuine masterpieces-a Whistler and a Mary Cassatt. "Not bad, not bad at all," the jurymen agreed...
Epilogue: slick, fashionable Portraitist Jean-Gabriel Domergue, who perpetrated the hoax, asked the public to guess, by ballot, which and what the jokers were. Only one voter found the Cassatt, no one spotted the Whistler...
Most ironic fate of all was reserved for surly, misanthropic Whistler. A painting he had coldly entitled Arrangement in Grey and Black so captivated the despised, incurably sentimental public that they retitled it Mother and made it what it is today-America's favorite picture of filial piety...