The Two Doorways

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1879–80

Whistler's etchings made in Venice are among the most innovative of his career. His experiments with light and dark shapes and figures produced a remarkable degree of abstraction in his Venetian views. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler ¹
Date: 1879–80 ¹
Medium: Etching with plate tone ¹
Original: 4,879 × 3,394 px ¹
License: Public domain (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art, The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916

Object record, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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