The Artist's Mother.
In one of his paintings, a green curtain decorated with roses hangs next to a girl in a white dress with a book in her lap in the titular "music room." Sea and Rain and Crepuscule in Opal are two of this man's depictions of Trouville, while version of The Artist's Studio features three equally-spaced figures with the artist at right and a gold-bordered mirror in the background. A woman in blue plays a shamisen in one of his paintings subtitled "The Balcony." "Lamplight" and "The Little Blue Girl" are the (*) subtitles of two works in a series by this man, who painted portraits of Frances Leyland and Theodore Duret. A man in a black coat holds his hat on his knees in this man's portrait of Thomas Carlyle. This painter of the Harmony series and decorator of the "Peacock Room" is best known for depicting a hanging blue curtain next to a seated woman. For 10 points, name this American painter of Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother.
In one of his paintings, a green curtain decorated with roses hangs next to a girl in a white dress with a book in her lap in the titular "music room.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 