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Whistler's Mother Returns to London in Historic Exhibition
The "American Mona Lisa" is back in London for the first time in decades. This iconic painting, created when the artist's model canceled and his 67-year-old mother stepped in, now anchors Europe's largest-ever Whistler retrospective.
