One of the most iconic images of American art is coming to the West Coast. James Abbott McNeill Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1," better known as "Whistler's Mother," an 1871 work in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris will travel to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif.

In this first-time collaboration between the two museums, a total of six works will be swapped from March 27 to June 22, 2015.