Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Two Doorways

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Date

1879–80

Medium

Etching with plate tone

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

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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