Minneapolis Institute of Art

Square House, Amsterdam

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Date

1889

Medium

Etching

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Whistler created ten etchings of Amsterdam, which he believed were some of the most successful of his career. Being in the land of Rembrandt, whom Whistler called the master, inspired him. These etchings combine the exacting technique of his early Thames scenes with the impressionism of his Venetian subjects. In the Amsterdam works Whistler used intricate linear patterns to evoke the varied surfaces of the houses and their reflections in the canals. United States, Americas

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