The Doorway
James McNeill WhistlerWW-1879-095513
1879·Etching, drypoint and roulette with foul biting in warm black, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream laid paper·Image/plate: 29 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1879
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 29 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
Artist
James McNeill Whistler
Painting
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- James McNeill Whistler
- Year
- 1879
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 29 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1879-095513
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified