Ellen Powers, Porcelain Artist and Watercolorist, Virginia Beach, VA
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Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl

11/21/2014

 
on Square Market
Joanna Hiffernan, Mr. Whistler’s mistress (their relationship referred to as “marriage without benefit of clergy”) modeled for many artists. 

Her beauty epitomized purity and Whistler's painting portrayed a lovely young girl wearing virginal white and holding lilies. However, as he also had her staring vacantly while standing on a bearskin rug with her hair in disarray (definitely not epitomizing purity), it also caused some alarm, plus a minor scandal. 

Rejected by both the London Royal Academy of Art and the Paris Salon, it finally found a home at the Salon Des Refusés, the “exhibition of rejects”. It is now hanging in the National Gallery of Art. 

Original Painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1861-62)


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