Artwork Details
20-3/4 x 15-11/16 in. (image) 24-7/8 x 18-7/8 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberGift of the Contemporary Club
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteA resident of London from 1884 to 1918, Pennell supported himself as an illustrator and his illustrations were often in the form of lithographs. In 1909, he helped found the Senefelder Club to revive artistic lithography and to encourage a hands-on involvement by artists in the printing process, which had long been secretly held by professional printers.
As an American, Pennell was a neutral when World War I erupted in Europe in 1914, but he produced a series of lithographs in 1917 that looked at the industrial might of wartime England. "But as we are in the midst of war, though some of us are not of it-and as war has developed the most incredible industrial energy all over the world-there is no reason why some artistic record should not be made."-Joseph Pennell, 1917
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
British Qualities: Works on Paper, 1875-1930
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 16, 2008 - July 13, 2008
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