The 1871 painting of Anna McNeil Whistler, popularly known as “Whistler’s Mother“, by her son James Abbot McNeil Whistler, will join the work of other Impressionist/Post Impressionist Parisian artists at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco for a huge exhibit that begins on May 22, 2010. 
“Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid- to late-19th century and from whose midst arose one of the most original and recognizable of all artistic styles, Impressionism. The exhibition begins with paintings by the great academic artist Bouguereau and the arch-Realist Courbet, and includes American expatriate Whistler’s Arrangement in Gray and Black, known to many as “Whistler’s Mother.” Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Sisley are showcased with works dating from the 1860s through 1880s, along with a selection of Degas’ paintings that depict images of the ballet, the racetrack, and life in the Belle Époque.”
“Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay” *5/22/10 – 9/6/10
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
Image: “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” (actual name is “Arrangement in Gray and Black, No.1”)