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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Unsafe Tenement is a 1858 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Farmhouse, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a run-down building with peeling paint and broken shutters. A lone figure stands near the door, adding scale. Whistler used etching to carve lines into a metal plate, then inked it to print this scene. The rough texture comes from drypoint, where he scratched extra lines for depth. Look at Whistler, James McNeill next if you like this gritty style.
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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