1863
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Weary is a 1863 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a woman’s face and shoulders turned slightly away. Her hair is drawn in quick, tangled lines, almost like wind or movement. The background is a mix of loose, crisscrossed strokes, with no clear details—just texture. The artist used drypoint, a technique where lines are scratched into a metal plate to create sharp, detailed marks. This sketch is rough and expressive, not polished. Next, look up technique: drypoint to see how it works.
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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