Campanile San Pietro, Venice
John Marin
1907
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint, selectively wiped, on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 17.2 × 12.9 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 20.2 cm (11 5/8 × 8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
A principal innovation of Whistler’s Venice etchings was the manipulation of surface ink to create different atmospheric effects in every impression; the same plate could be printed to appear nocturnal, bathed in mist, or animated by dazzling sunlight. Marin shared with the older artist a “delight in the surface intangibles of light and movement,” employing tonal veils of ink in his printmaking almost from the beginning and improvising with subtractive wiping techniques of his own.
