1884
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Boats, Dordrecht is a 1884 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows boats lined up along a dock in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The lines are scratchy and loose, not smooth. You can almost hear the water lapping against the hulls. Whistler spent weeks drawing here. He etched the plates right on the spot, then reworked them back in his studio. The paper feels thin under your fingers when you see it up close. Look for the way he leaves the sky almost blank. Compare it to Whistler, James McNeill.
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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