Rio delle Verona, Venice
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Addie Burr Clark
Accession Number
1946.9.128
Art Historical Context
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan's *Rio delle Verona, Venice (1912) captures the serene beauty of one of Venice's quieter canals, the Rio delle Verona, during the artist's frequent sojourns in the city. A Canadian-American printmaker active in the early 20 century, MacLaughlan renowned for his evocative depictions of Venetian waterways, bridges, and architecture, blending detail with atmospheric mood. Created just before World War I, etching reflects a golden era of European travel and artistic fascination with Italy's lagoon city, a perennial muse for artists from Canaletto to Whistler. As an etching...
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...