1859
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Longshoremen is a 1859 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows five men in a dim, crowded space. They’re hunched over barrels and crates, wearing loose clothes and hats. One man leans on a barrel, another holds a pipe, and the lines are rough and scratchy, like quick pencil strokes. The artist used a technique called drypoint to make the lines look jagged. The paper has a greenish tint, which is unusual for etchings. Next, look up etching to see how artists like Whistler made prints with needles and acid.
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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