Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Two Doorways

James Abbott McNeill WhistlerLinkedCulture matchlcp-a97fbea0f78d

Date: 1879–80
Medium: Etching with plate tone
Department: Arts of the Americas
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 7397

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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. In Two Doorways, light human figures emerge from the dark doorway, which is framed with light stone. Whistler plays with similar effects for the gondoliers past the second door, near the bridge further along the canal. United States, Americas

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Credit line: The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916

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English Portrait Miniatures
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