1896
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Butcher's Dog is a 1896 by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a street scene with a small dog sitting outside a butcher shop. Inside the shop window, you can see meat hanging and a few people standing around. The building has a simple, flat roof and a doorway on the left. The dog looks calm, almost like it’s waiting. The drawing is loose and quick, with lots of shading to show light and dark areas. This style comes from Realism, a movement that focused on everyday scenes.
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.
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