1875
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Dam Wood is a 1875 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Forest, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows tall trees with thin trunks against a soft sky. The lines are thin and scratchy. The paper looks old and slightly yellow. Whistler made this in 1875. He used a drypoint needle to scratch the plate. The image feels quiet and still, like a moment frozen in time. Check out Whistler, James McNeill next time you're at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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