1901
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
A Doorway in Ajaccio is a 1901 by James McNeill Whistler, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a simple doorway leading into a dim room. The walls inside are plain, with a faint glow from a window or lamp. Outside, a rough stone wall and a small patch of ground are barely suggested. The artist used only gray tones, almost like a faded photo. The edges are uneven, as if drawn quickly or left unfinished. Look up chiaroscuro next to see how light and shadow work in drawings like this.
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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