Articles by Sheila Mulrooney

Sheila Mulrooney's work has appeared in Dappled Things, The Agonist Journal, The Society of Classical Poets, America Magazine (forthcoming), and elsewhere. She received her Masters from the University of Toronto and works in Rochester, NY.

After Whistler’s Mother

“Take the picture of my mother, exhibited as an ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black.’ To me it is interesting as a picture of my mother; but what can or ought the public to care about the identity of the portrait?” – James McNeill Whistler The pages of the history of art open to Whistler’s Mother….